Maturity

The forest, asleep for 4000 years,

awoke and sheltered Me, comforted Me,

welcoming Me home as Daughter of Earth.

The forest has 4,000 loving arms, and I have two!

I gestated and birthed Lava, child of earth's fire,

My beloved son, out of My body, and raised him,

along with his green 'twin brother'

Kusha, son of earth, made of leaves.

My white moon horse that Rama stole

(My moon symbol of earth fertility)

escaped from Ram, to share My forest peace,

The two boys unknowingly vanquished their father

who chased the horse to capture it,

and in admiration he welcomed them as his sons

seducing My sons to military ways.

I let My young men go to Ram

to understand his patriarchal power-over.

For the sake of My sons, I went back to Ram,

and was betrayed by him a second time.

A cycle turned.

Fearless, I dived again, seeking renewal,

into a fiery crack in Earth,

plunged down to central fire.

Pure, unburnable,

I explored deep into Earth's molten magma

rite of passage, to embrace the deathless

Crone of Regeneration,

to find My own fiery Kore,

to become One with My fierce Mother

dynamo of energy.

Daughter of Earth, matured,

I became One with Gaia, Source of life.       

I emerged waxing full, whole, shining,

Mother in My own Moon right.

I raised My sons with love,

to be spiritually fearless in the service of all life.,

to be part of the community of all.

I hope they will return to Me, their Mother.

(Return to Me! I am Return, re-Vision!)

To set a good example for you, My daughters,

I think I should try to get through

to those sons of mine (the time is now!)

to set them again on a feminist path!

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018