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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Other · #2345474

...In the ceremonial birth chamber

One star rises,
another star fades.
One moon cries,
someone bleeds in the dark.

Whetting the mother's love,
going behind the above:
shrieking,
wailing,
the child is born.
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