Do I always feel like shit? No, quite the opposite.
Many things do depress me but other things stimulate me.
For almost every tale I tell of feeling and falling down,
I can spin another story about filling and firing up.
Like this voice gift I sent to some friends who had given me a lift:
“Ngangkiparingga: Kaurna for Women’s River
The river; she’s full, so I am full.
Her banks are swollen, so my heart is swollen.
The women are full, in my circle, so I am full.
The community is full, so I am full.
When The Women’s River overflows, we all fill up our cup.”
Now don’t get me wrong,
I’m not all about hashtag Yeah The Girls #YTG
I’m also all for hashtag Yeah The Boys #YTB
Boys do do it for me:
my husband’s sensual touch,
my baby’s joyous laughter,
my brothers’ bassy voices.
I love loud, male, yang energy – forward it propels me!
But quiet, female, yin energy is important – it says stop; just be.
Yin and yang. Moon and sun.
Light and shadow, always.
All skies exist in all of us, from ink black to light blue
And all are ok to talk about, your truth is all of you.
I have this vision… so I am making it my mission:
To bring the usual reprieve of midnight sleeps
into the hours that daylight keeps.
Light and shadow, always.
For without shining a torch on a dark path,
how is one supposed to get past?
Light and shadow. Always.
#lightandshadowalways
*This is one of my newer poems, published in my book: “You must be so tired”, which you can purchase via that link.
#fatigue #sleepdeprivation #earlyparenthood #nighttimeparenting #needsdontstopatnight #babies #toddlers #preschoolers
#RnR #RestNRelaxation #Rest #Relaxation #MyRnR