This is a featured poem from our 3rd edition of the LIFTS Magazine.
The Becoming, by April Lemieux
My lips formed around
your name, little one,
long before I ever
held you close.
My body a living shelter
around the ember
of your essence.
And now here you are
living and breathing and
Oh….who knew it could
all feel so big?
This mothering.
This sudden vastness
of love that stretches wide and deep
like the prairie sky.
Oh tiny being,
my child,
my heart.
You have undone me
and made me whole
in the space of one breath.
What magic.
What wonder.
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