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Mothering - Taraneh Erfan King
When invited to speak on the topic of Mothering, at the January Grace Club event, I knew I wanted to bridge the personal or individual experience of mothering, with the more global or holistic perspective. To me, mothering is not just about being a mother or having a mother. Mothering is about caring for, providing for, attending to, attuning to, considering, fostering, protecting and treasuring those we love. This can of course be our children, but it can also be our partner, our parents, our friends, our neighbours, our community members, our fellow humans, our planetary family, and let's not forget, ourselves. How beautiful a world we can create, if we allow our mothering to start with ourselves, and radiate outwards? Imagine the healing that can occur, like a ripple of love, flowing out from the centre of our hearts, reaching all beings.
So if mothering is inclusive, what might it be able to offer the world at this time? As I sat with this question for the first few weeks of January, the following poem arrived to me all in one sitting on the morning of the Women's March. After sharing it at the event last Sunday, I know it's not meant to stay on sheets of paper, stacked on my dinning room table. It is meant to be shared. So, friends, here it is.
We say “the future is female” And raise our fists up to the sky But for far too long The female power has been one of Posing and posturing Surface beauty and sex-appeal Trend over Truth
The gloriousness of the female power Is beyond these Her glory is in the heat of the red hot blood Running through her veins And between her legs
Her glory is in the way she tosses her mane Not for attention But so she can lasso the moon To change the tides Of this planetary experience
Her glory is in her heart The way she so fiercely cares That nothing will stop her in her tracks She is mama wolf
She is mother to all things To the beauty and To the pain To the child who has lost his way Forgotten his brothers and sisters The one who has forgotten to stay curious About things she has yet to understand The one who is acting out Seeking attention Longing to be love
We can all be her - this mother Who comes forth with generosity and firmness Who leads by example What it means to care To love To share To reset To belong to each other To heal together
If this is what it means to mother We can all be her - this mother Men and women Young and old Our glory transcends the bodies we are born into and birth Transcends boundaries of Privilege and country Colour and race Gender and the list goes on to the horizon Of a thousand glorious suns
This mother transcends time and space And grows in her womb A deep love That when birthed Will heal the whole world
Yes the future is female And by Goddess She is a magnificent mother.