Hanna Strack » Back to the Womb

Close your eyes an open your inner eye:

 

 

I  walk by my inner pictures

back to the womb of my mother

back on the way,

through which I came

with great power

and I turned in the light

 

My mothers womb,

my first home

in the amniotic fluid

 

I feel it now in my imagination:

from the placenta

are flowing into me

the power and the food

just like from my tree of life

 

I do feel it:

how my umbilical cord

my thread of life

is connecting me

with my source of power

 

Mother,

I live in you.

I am hearing

I am tasting,

I am feeling

 

I am trembling, when you are afraid

I am laughing, when you

are stroking me

through your womb

I am listening, when you are singing

 

and then, on time:

All around me in revolt,

it labours, it contracts

it works

it makes me angry

and – with one push

I enter in this strange world

 

The hands of the midwife,

the smile of my father,

the warmth of the skin and the bosom

of my mother receive me.