The Return of Her

A poem that represents the return to the woman as an individual, before motherhood.

She lay dormant an entire year
The baby's cries,
The baby's needs.

Then, the river flowed again,
Calling her to wake.

She did not want to wake at first,
To shed her mother-skin.

But beneath there lay
A woman, almost forgotten.

She lay dormant an entire year

Until…

Her cries,
Her needs,
Burst forth in ecstatic thrill.