Blessed

By Stephanie Sideways

Pop as my waters broke.
So full of anticipation.
Waves of contraction.
Pushed free.
Happy!

Oh burning ring of fire.
Stretched to ripping point.
Then followed relief.
Baby boy.
Joy!

Bearing down, sending your invite.
Come meet your family.
Sister waited excitedly.
Accepted invitation.
Elation!

Perfect mop of dark hair.
I held you close.
You smelt sweet.
Tiny feet.
Complete!

A cascade of overwhelming emotions
Staring into husbands eyes
Happy tears cried
Bursting with
Pride!

Words cannot express how happy.
Joy, elation, complete, pride
I wholly invest
Â my love.
Blessed.

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Published on Sunday, December 16, 2012. Filed under: "Personal" and "Poetry"

Author's Note:

This was written with a 5,4,3,2,1 structure. I had restructured this version of the original after another poet said it leant itself to this structure well. I was intrigued to see if it lost any of its emotion by being so structured.....

Comments on "Blessed"

On Monday, December 17, 2012, dwells (4177) wrote:

As I recall blessed is Baruch or even Barack in Aramaic, cheers to you and it sounds like a fine Christmas present!