When you were almost here, about ready to emerge

I knelt upon my bed, and fell into deep prayer

To you

I told you about everyone in the room, loving you and waiting for you

I confided my love for you, my commitment to you as your mother

As the one bringing you in

I told you that your entrance would be as gentle as possible

I fell into this prayer,

I wept,

I poured my heart out to you.

Then I stood up

And returned to our altar.

I resumed deep meditation,

In essential silence.

It was you and me and Spirit,

You and me and the angels in the room,

You and me and our love 

Beyond all realms of time and space,

You and me and our sacred ancestors

Guiding us closer and closer together.

No fear came into this one;

No fear entered this birth

No hesitation

No resistance

Nothing could withstand the love

There was only love,

Only oneness

Mind, body, soul

Me, you, Spirit

Birth, life, death

All at once;

All of me, and all of you

And there you were —

Emerging in the waterfall 

Of amniotic fluid.

Your daddy and I helped you land softly,

And then he stood back.

And I knelt down

And claimed you into my arms,

My baby, my One

I asked for you and you asked for me, too

You beckoned to me from the other side

You signaled the deep waves coming;

Of transformation, of alchemy

Your birth gave me peace beyond measure

A peace that only comes through oneness 

With life and death, body and Spirit.

To know the power that we are.