08/04/2020
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To the mothers of right now✨
I hope you can see it -
how incredibly strong you're being.
What you are being called to do,
to mother alone,
goes against what you truly need.
And yet,
still you stand.
To the mothers of right now,
I hope you see yourself in a whole new light -
How you bent, and you swayed,
in an unrelenting storm,
and yet,
you did not break.
To the mothers of right now,
I hope that you can see yourself as you truly are -
a warrior.
You are doing something
that no one has ever done before.
This is new,
this is hard.
And yet,
you continue.
To the mothers of right now,
I hope you never forget -
the times you gave yourself grace, and patience, and kindness,
how it served you, held you, carried you through,
and that you can give yourself permission for these virtues to be present in your mothering, always.
To the mothers of right now,
I hope you never doubt yourself again -
not today, not tomorrow, not ever.
because what you are doing is uncharted, unguided, unrelenting,
and yet,
you're doing it beautifully.
The mothers of right now,
you are as strong as a they come -
And I just pray you can always see yourself that way.💜
| Image Art by Chloe Trayhurn Words Fourth Trimester Collective |