Happy Birthday Chloe !
You lay
Where they placed you
A Bundle of Love
Soft and warm
Against my skin
Exhausted
From the twisting, shoving
Little trooper ! ….
You fought for your place
Here
Relaxed
In the knowing
You were adored
Courage exuded
From every
innocent pore
Each limb
Extended
…little shoots
of solid oak
A strength
transplanted
from your mother’s love
HAPPY 11th Birthday, My Darling Daughter Chloe xoxoxo
Birth of the Soul
A formless puddle 
Of energy
Rippling, softly
Here I float
Surrounded by Light
I swell
In rapturous harmony
Existential delight !
Must I go ?
Must I choose
The trauma
And heartache
Of this Life ?
Darkness descends
A bloodied womb
My cradle
The beating heart
My only constancy
Oh the pain !
I wince
My face distorted
Squinting
at the brightness
Reluctantly
I emerge
Into the cold
A Mother’s Voyage
Giggles of innocence
Bubbling with love
Contagiously foaming
Frothing
…Swirling
Swept up in the swell
of motherly joy
Enter predestined passions
A professional calling
Awash in a whirlpool
Intensity whirring
Riding the waves
of growth and fulfillment
Adrenaline rises
Caught in the rip
of responsibility
Whipped up by moonlight
Madness
Nocturnal drowning
In muddied roles
Calm breaks
Momentary stillness descends
Pressure rising and falling
And rising
…And falling
Silence stems the flow
Providing the compass
to temporary floating
Dreaming
Hoping
Til the dawn tide
Surges
At the birth of the Sun
Colleen DuBois ~ Reflections of Me 
Recent Comments