“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”-Sophia Loren
The Art of Mothering
by Carmen H Gray
Mothering is a messy creation
From the first sighs of elation
To the scars borne from formation
During nine months of gestation
And many long years of cultivation
Mothering is a messy creation
Mothering is yourself cracked wide open
Nurturing and allowing all the hope in
Even when everything feels all broken
You hold fast, it is a rule unspoken
Among all hearts whose love was awoken
Mothering is yourself cracked wide open
Mothering is an art of refraining
From the onslaught of the clamorous complaining
It matters not that your strength is waning
It matters only that you keep sustaining
Before you break from all the feigning
Mothering is an art of refraining
Monarca Rising 
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