A birth is a difficult thing By Robert Fullarton Copyright 2017

A birth is a difficult thing

By Robert Fullarton Copyright 2017

A birth is a difficult thing

But not a burden

As every life

be it good or bad

passed through the thinnest

Shaft of light

I looked at the baby

Struggling to breathe

And wondered long

And hard about its pain,

My sense of reason

Behind the feeling

Connected my mind

To the great truth beyond

From the worm unto

The whale,

The star unto the supernova

The baby was born

And another story began its

Painful path once more

For this is the way of the world

Until these painful contractions

Give way unto a new creation

ad infinitum, ab aeterno, for all time