Your face shines down

my pregnant mother

watching the movements

of her unborn child

Your face smiles into mine

I lay near you

my arms reaching

for your embrace

The light in your eyes

holds me close to you

You teach me your lessons

of natural living,

shuddering

as you let me make

the painful mistakes

my mind and heart

cling to you with the

love of a child

whose innocent words of prayer

are an attempt only to please you,

my Mother,

my Goddess,

allow me to worship you

in my own child-like way