30/05/2025
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✨The Lost Art of Being With the Birth✨
Once, we sat beside the fire’s glow,
Hands still, hearts wide, letting labor flow.
No clocks, no charts, no numbered pain.
Just breath and moan and falling rain.
We knew the tides, the moon’s slow call,
The way a mother leans, then falls.
Into the sea of something vast.
Each wave a rite, each surge a mast.
We whispered low, we touched with grace.
We did not rush or rearrange.
The sacred space where power grew.
Like roots through stone, like morning dew.
We did not speak unless she asked.
We wore no mask, we set no task.
But now, the beeping steals the song.
The lights are bright, the waits too long.
They chart her pain, they count, they scan.
And call it the best care, but miss the plan.
For birth is not a thing to fix.
It’s not a graph or bag of tricks.
It’s thunder wrapped in silken skin.
A roar that starts and ends within.
So let us grieve what we have lost.
The time, the trust, the fearsome cost.
And let us vow to find again.
The art of being there, as then.
To hold the space, to breathe, to see.
Not manage birth, but let it be.
To kneel with awe, not stand above.
And meet the work with sacred love.
-Love,
Flor Cruz
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