A stone…
A stone among a million…
yet this one caught my eye.
Smooth, almost immaculately white ,
but wait…
when I turned it around,
a bright orange stared at me in a most unusual pattern.
Something deep inside struck me and I immediately started to feel connected,
goose pimples all over my skin made it a physical
as well as spiritual experience…
What was I seeing, could it really be…?
There before me lay a beautiful image of a foetus..
yet undefined , but full of promise… safely cocooned in a womb…
Tears started to run down my face… tears that I had no way of controlling…
I sat , the wind sending a light breeze through my hair,
smelling the intense saltness of the sea… knowing ..
that I had been found.
This story took place about 7 years ago.
Today I am the mother of a beautiful 4 year old daughter.
I went back to that place with her, we lingered on those beaches together,
smelled the same sea air and a wonderful feeling of arrival came over me.
Contemplating during a quiet moment, I strolled down to the sea on my own,
let the waves kiss my toes ,
and was found, yet again....
It is a mysterious , wonderous, delicious world.
(c)Lila* 2004
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