What if you were pregnant with a holy fire?
Would you be lit from within?
Might your glowing eyes hint
at the mystery to the outside world?
How would you feed this fire?
When she was pregnant,
my friend listened everyday
to Mozart and Debussy
so her babe would hear
sweet sounds in the womb.
She gave up caffeine and alcohol,
ate fresh organic food,
and practiced breathing
to prepare for labor.
How would you feed this fire?
Purify yourself.
Rest and dream.
Now is the time of waiting,
now is the long night.
Breathe in
the darkness,
and breathe out
your fear.
You are tinder for the fire,
and it will burn in your bones.
The Kingdom of Enough 