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For Each and Every One of Us

Her hands but held my tiny form,

But touched me in her sweet cocoon.

She talked to me when I could but hear,

She stroked my arms, my legs, my head when I could but feel.

She saw a thousand faces and a thousand people,

When she rocked me in her awkward, loving embrace.

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I was her agony, the times she sickened.

I was her joy, flailing limbs against her womb.

I was her companion, in times of loneliness.

Countless names, in times of thought.

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I ate her food, I drank her water,

I breathed her air, for I was her.

I was, I am and she loves me always,

And I remember and I feel and I hear

Those months and those years

Through want and love and kinship of her.

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Her and I, together,

One being, in God's loving eyes

And I love her for always and always

forever

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By Alice McGuiness

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