Dust to Dust

Anticipated, yet unannounced

Until it’s time!

The messy arrival on blood

& mucous & sweat

Unstoppable—out of the birthing body

The new body arrives awashed

With living saline of tears,

emesis, amniotic fluids,

As if all births sourced

from One cosmic ocean

Aliveness by fluidity

Into a messy Life of flowing,

Bleeding, weeping,

Flushing, pulsing,

Mucking, soaking

Drinking, dissolving,

Swirling, seeping,

Then the ebbing

Anticipated, yet unannounced

Until it’s time!

The messy departure on blood

& mucous & sweat

Unstoppable—out of the dying body

The Spirit leaves behind

the body awashed

With dying saline of tears,

emesis, iv fluids,

As if all deaths reSourced

into One cosmic ocean**

Ashes to ashes~Dust to dust

with the messy fluidity

Always the living bridge in between

Life, May we drink it ALL in!

**inspired in part by “Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.”—Carl Jung

And my many years of being with the first and last breaths of life working as a nurse