"Become a Mother"

If you wish to be destroyed

Completely destroyed.

Become a mother.

Every crisis

In every corner

In every part of the world

Will become personal to you

Because it will involve someone’s baby.

and you know what it feels like to have and love 

And lay down your own life for a baby

And you cannot

For the life of you

Imagine what the mother is going through,

As her baby is hurt.

Injured.

gone.

And over and over

Your heart will be crushed

Because to be a mom

Is to share and to know the grief

Of the whole world.
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If you wish to know joy

Complete joy.

Become a mother.

Every triumph

In every corner

In every part of the world

Will become personal to you.

Because it will involve someone’s baby.

And you know what it feels like to have and love 

And lay down your own life for a baby.

And you cannot

For the life of you

Stop imagining the elation that mother is feeling

As her baby wins the gold medal.

Falls in love.

Says yes to life.

And over and over

Your heart will soar.

Because to be a mom

Is to share and to know the joy

Of the whole world.