Making Space

Much like the body

Makes space for new life

New love In pregnancy

The body must make space for grief

Make space for grief in death

Make space for grief in our home

Make space for grief in the world

Make space for loving into

this world of impermanence

As with birthing new life

Love is born through the body

Bared by the body

Expressed by the body

Experienced by the body

Making space in our bodies

For more love

also means making space

For more grief

As if we are mothering

The grieving parts of ourselves AND

The grieving parts of another—

AS within ourselves like a pregnancy

Mothering with loving into

this world of impermanence

Mothering the anger, the confusion, the despair

Not othering—unmothering,

casting out of our bodies

with illusion of our separation

May we then birth more Love

May we then birth more Peace

May we then birth more Justice

In Making space in our own bodies

Perhaps then suffering

will finally be loved free

Making space for the whole of ourselves

Perhaps then we will all be free