Saturday, April 30, 2022

Mother Night Will Find You

Watching me claw to reach you—don’t you trust me?

But I am your mother. I birthed you in a forlorn place.

They took you from me before your first breath.

I have sought you ever since down the long labyrinths of lost nights.

The craving for your embrace drew me to you.

Now that I’ve found you, I’ll claw you out of the false womb.

You’ll live again inside me after I swallow you whole.