Loading...
2022-04-08T12:12:31-07:00August 27th, 2011|Parenthood|

The in-between

The first in-between phase
is the obvious one,

I was part girl
part woman
gangly
spotty
new soft
flesh.

The second
was the space between
woman
and mother,

I still wore my hair in a knot
like I did at university
at exam time
but I also had a new baby
and a purse,
bigger than I’d ever owned,
full of just in case
items like band-aids
aloe vera
a rubber ball.

I didn’t yet call anyone
pup
but I could suddenly
make an excellent soup
and I found the words
came easier
for what I believed in.

And then one day
my son said mama
for the first time
and the path behind me
fell away,
just like that,
the last bit of child
I was
no more.

INSPIRED TO SHARE?
Go to Top