Twenty-seven years ago*...

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Giving birth
is not a 
private affair. 

The world
stands still.

And yet,
does not. 

What was once
inextricably linked,
for what seemed
forever,

is not.

For in that on-going
moment, 
when one becomes
two, 

All of the clichés-
are true. 

*Today is my third child's, (a daughter), birthday. I have watched her grow into a woman of real substance and talent. On that, very cold, January day, twenty-seven years ago, she arrived to; an ice storm, a sister, a brother, a father, a mother, and much love.