Motheroot

by Marilou Awiakta

Creation often
needs two hearts
one to root
and one to flower
One to sustain
in times of drouth
and hold fast
against winds of pain
the fragile bloom
that in the glory
of its hour
affirms a heart
unsung, unseen



I've been thinking lately about getting a tattoo.  Don't get too excited because I expect I'll just be thinking about it for quite a while.  I would want a tree with roots.  Something sort of like this...

To me it is a beautiful symbol of the connection between self and creation... in a lot of different ways.  Anyway, this poem is in an amazing book I'm reading called Revolution from Within written by the one-and-only Gloria Steinem.  To me the poem goes with the tree thing enough that I spent part of my time on BART today doodling how words could be incorporated into the tree.


ps:  I love this: