Cleaving

From a single cell

Cleaving into many

A mother is born

From a single baby

Cleaving from womb

A baby is born

From a single sip

Cleaved from earth

A child grows separately

From a single hour

Cleaved from the hip

A mother grows separately

From a single night

Spent away from home

Mother & child cleave—

Held together, yet split apart

at the same time

And so it goes as it began

with motherhood

A cleaving,

A leaving,

all the while

A weaving

One, yet two

Two, yet one

And so it goes as it began

With Life

Many paths, One Spirit

We cleave

We leave

We weave

Love is born!