Is gentleness

The alchemical panacea

I have long sought?

Like the ouroboros

The beginning is the end

And my womb was the ocean

To the ocean I shall return

In the beginning,

I crawled from the sea

My old stomping grounds

Are the Pacific’s shores

I slept on pillows of sand

I wore tunics of seaweed

Adornments of shells 

And of pearls

Each gifted by the goddess

To remind me of my origins

I learned to swim

Before I learned to crawl

I understood intuitively

The hand of the Moon

Cradled me and my kin

We payed her homage

Through dance

Around blazing bonfire

Full Moons invigorating the senses

Reminding us that each life has its peak

And when it comes,

To dance through the night

She taught me about family

That we are all related by blood

That the border between the animate

And inanimate

Is completely and utterly

Imaginary

She taught me that diet

Is more than what’s in your stomach

But what you allow into your heart

And that there cannot be input

Without output

That it is a gift to love others

That you gain

When you give

She taught me that Moonlight

Can be gathered into your hands

She taught me that Moonlight

Exists in our dreams

She taught me that Moonlight is love

And can be absorbed with every sense

It can be tasted, smelt, 

You can take in its texture 

Rolling it between your fingers

You can listen to it sing 

and speak

She taught me that you are Moonlight

And that I am too

She taught me that love is pain

For no one will ever love you greater

Than your mother

And that she will labor

In agony to bring you to this world

But she’d do it gladly over and over again

Enduring torture if need be

Simply to see you smile

The mother holds me in her hands

Gazing and cooing

And I watch as she changes shape

I watch as the months go by

I learn from her when she is

A gibbous

A crescent
New

Full

That even if she can’t be seen

She still carries me

That her power is subtle

Omnipresent

Permeating all

Animating all

And that her love is rage

And that her rage is born of love