Arrive in this world slowly
a bit at a time
Small soft new body settling into the weight of gravity
the feel of incarnate belonging
The arms of mother Earth, the arms of your mother, the arms of your father,
the arms of your family,
hold you as you fall into this way of being
come gradually into this world
When your eyes are closed and you are dreaming
return to where you were before
there you are ancient, enormous, unbound, and knowing
here you will be innocent and naïve
as it should be when we begin again
begin again swaddled in love, in blissful wonder
In love with this new world, this new life
and when we, your elders, your grandparents, grand uncles, and grand aunts begin to sense our time here will not be forever as we felt it would be
for even though love is eternal we are still woven into the temporary
In our aging we begin to close our eyes again
we begin to visit the place we came from a bit at a time
if we are fortunate, our falling in love with life returns with a fierceness
becomes ever more poignant, precious
the time approaches for us to shift once again within the great turning spiral within circles
if we are fortunately we move slowly a bit at a time into the world from whence we came
into the arms of the goddess
the cosmos
the universe greets us as our body returns to the earth and all her care
