Absorbing
NS August 26th, 2010
Summer draws to a close
Perhaps my introspective period too?
Words don’t flow from me but to me
Books upon books upon books
Words of others, my need
Words of mine, few
Too busy absorbing
like a sponge
The knowledge and the beauty
The wisdom and the love
The skill and the art
of living in the moment
Absorbing words
Absorbing life
Absorbing her before she goes
off to school
No longer my baby
But a girl in uniform
Headed into the brightness
of her future
Destined to absorb
like a sponge
All of the words
that made her mama who she is
Absorbing her smell, her cuddles, her touch
Like a sponge, I soak her up
take her into my pores
The line between mother and child
blurred once more
