How to Grow a Child
(A Poem For My Mother)
©March 12th, 2019
By Vijaya Sundaram
In a deep, rich, red space
Of velvet blood, and floating womb,
The planet of the me-Child formed,
Heart, by lungs, by brain,
Arms, legs, fingers, toes.
I grew, while Her Voice sang
Marrow into my bones, nurtured me
With joyous longing, captured my
Floating, vague, growing essence,
Bathed me in music.
This is how to form into a person:
Note by note, song by song,
Beat by beat, cell by cell,
Lung by lung, corpuscle by corpuscle,
In time, and in tune, in song,
And in love.
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