For the pregnant woman

In case you haven’t heard it today:

mama, you are BEAUTIFUL!

you are SO beautiful

utterly gorgeous all the way through

I know this, because there is NOTHING more awe-inspiring, creative, wonderful and lovely as a pregnant woman

you really do GLOW

you might feel heavy

tired

perhaps you ache

maybe you need to pee every five minutes...

still:

your voluptuous roundness is the epitome of femininity

- connectedness

- - sensuousness

- - - generosity

- - - - softness

- - - - - and strength.

you’re creating life

with every breath

even at rest, your body is harder at work than the rest of us when we are making an effort

each moment, you are knitting a wonderful little person into being

- - you created a damn eyeball in your sleep! - -

this fact seeps into every gesture

- every glance

- - every step

you sparkle with it

Dear mama – you are poetry personified.

the raw physicality of your body is awesome and beautiful

like an impressive thunderstorm

most especially now, in its current creative state

every cell

- every pore

- - every scar

- - - every part of you that swells

- or stretches

- - or contracts

- - - or leaks

IS GORGEOUS

for its own sake

and also for the potential it overflows with

your aura thrums with the intensity of your body’s changes

and the creative force driving them

I had to write you this message because some people don’t recognise this. They don’t see how stunning you are, and how are you to feel, constantly reflected in the meagre mirror of their eyes?

Men can be forgiven, I suppose, up to a point, because how could a mere man can really understand it? Bizarrely, it’s even considered “normal” to be “grossed out” by pregnancy, or contemptuous of it, thanks to the misogynistic society we live in.

These people are paltry and pitiable, and any women they impregnate or care for are vastly short changed.

Never forget how amazing you are.

Roar, goddess.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this!

Please do pass it along if you know someone who is expecting.

Thank you again!