Girls Leads

Two girl legs,

Lanky & fierce,

Lead four horse legs

in sauntered ambulation

Two mama legs

dangle, surrendered

To other alive beings

for silent locomotion

What I have birthed,

carried,

What I have bared,

bequeathed,

She holds me now,

My girl leads the way

He sways me now,

her horse underneath

In the quiet walking meditation

As I am strolled, carried, lead

Timelessness treads

pondering my perceptions

of maternal pride,

Hope & Love threads

Generations before me

Burdened & bestowed

Leading me to lead she

Generations after me

Striding boldly & empowered

Leading her to lead me

Somewhere deep within my hip bones

In the arc of time, Cosmic metronome

Pelvic circles and sways

I feel my daughter’s

daughter rocking away

As if my mother’s

mother is rocking me

All this leading—

in a spiral of synchrony