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Born

April 9, 2016 15 Comments

I recall it all, thrown into the blood-on-white chaos of the delivery room, the shrieking people and the beeping of man’s life machines, the stark light first seen through closed eyes. It was all so different from the floating, dark serenity of the womb, where my thoughts found the peace of patient solitude, where the murmuring world outside was but the whispers of ashen-winged angels as they held watch over me.

I’d a memory of having been here before, and a wish to know these souls newly introduced to my own, to one day shelter them as they would cradle me, in my infancy. Yet, there was a hunger, to find the souls I’d known before, and a ravenous need to find one in particular, one without which, I would always hunger, living and dying again, famished, impoverished, lamenting in the internal disquiet of unrequital, my soul becoming a vagabond, never knowing a home.

In the trees outside the window, a lone bird sang her morning song of grace, and of needful longing, and I knew then– that she was here in this place. I’d need only find her, again. I’d need only love her more deeply this time, as she’d deserved to be loved. As surely as I needed air that I may breathe, I needed her love– that I may live.

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  1. tiffanybeingfree says

    April 9, 2016 at 10:07 am

    I can so relate to this. That deep yearning as of yet, remains unmet. May we each find that hunger met in this lifetime, no more need for dying.

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    • Eric says

      April 9, 2016 at 10:10 am

      Tiffany, good morning 🙂 Yes, may we each..

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      • tiffanybeingfree says

        April 9, 2016 at 5:32 pm

        ?☀️❤️

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  2. Lisa R. Palmer says

    April 10, 2016 at 8:34 am

    Love this!

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    • Eric says

      April 10, 2016 at 10:02 am

      Thank you, Lisa 🙂

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  3. Crystal Empath says

    April 10, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Oh wow…just lovely! ❤

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    • Eric says

      April 10, 2016 at 10:03 am

      Thank you so much, Crystal 🙂

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  4. Crystal Empath says

    April 10, 2016 at 8:40 am

    I realized I was holding my breath until I finished reading…very moving…thank you!

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  5. Crystal Empath says

    April 10, 2016 at 9:57 am

    May I share this (reblog) for others to enjoy?

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    • Eric says

      April 10, 2016 at 10:02 am

      Please do. I’d be honored. Thank you 🙂

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      • Crystal Empath says

        April 10, 2016 at 10:12 am

        ?

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  6. Karen says

    July 14, 2016 at 10:32 am

    Maybe whom you seek is in the next generation. The cosmic connections you speak of are often found in the eyes of children. The divine is in every being.

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    • Eric says

      July 14, 2016 at 10:56 pm

      Karen, thank you for bringing me back here. I haven’t even looked at this blog in quite a while. Haven’t written anything either. Perhaps it’s time.

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      • Karen says

        July 16, 2016 at 11:38 am

        The other thought that occurred to me about the journey and seeking was that it may be necessary to look within rather than externally.

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