child mother

childhood friend becomes a mother
the days we dreamed of, sundrenched and blessed with the scent of grass
hidden among the dandelions and the sky was immense
"flowers for a quarter!" we shouted to all that passed
the love i had for you was sisterly, and slightly incestuous
locked, it tuned out, into lives that twine across a great expanse
of land and of time
echoes to me, the loss of innocence
when did it happen - the furies and passion?
when did you bloom?  i missed it somehow - the straining, painful growth of a woman, a woman who now
holds a key to life within her velvet feathers, her soft supple flesh
i'll caress you from a thousand miles above my mountains, above all that sky
and for that soft creature of may
welcome to earth
the sun and moon and stars smile on you, delicate desert bloom, scented lemon
perfume of ancient mothers shall fill your heart
i'll cradle you both in my wide open arms
we are blessed by the goddess
i can feel the soft glow
of babies, and women now, and gentle blue snow

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