Mother First, Poet Second

My name is Marie Harriet-Louise and I am strong.  I am powerful.  I am a Mother.  Being a mother is not something that you can ever stop, or take a break from.  It is a 24/7, 366 days a year job.  (Notice how I said "366" days a year.  A lot of the mothers that I hear from within my neighborhood only say "365."  What about leap years?  You taking a break then, on Feb. 31st?  I don't.)  Being a mother means you are hyper-vigilant to your child and their needs.  You are in-tuned with their wave length and their gamma length.  You can sense when they need mother's care or mother's attention.

I am virtuous.  I am unrelenting.  I am a poet.  Being a poet means that you are a creator.  Just how a mother will push and scream a child into the world (via the birth canal,) a poet will do the same with her words and emotion and feelings and experiences.  It is through her willpower that a living and breathing poem can flourish and grow and change the minds of others.

I am a mother.  I am a poet.  And I create life.

Amen.