Birthday poems had figured sometime back in this group. I had meant to post one but then...
here's that one, provided the topic has not been completely exhausted;
A Birthday Poem
Birthday.
is there no other name
for a pulsating, painful
palpitating parturition
of a piffle of puckered flesh
wailing in a mass
of uterine tissue and
shreds of throbbing bits
of maternal joy.
I have come a long way though
from my birth and yet this
day chases me with an unusual
precision
perhaps to remind me that
happiness is a mangled form
entangled in the epithelium of pain.
and yet and yet this birth was not
the only one;
for I have,
amidst shrieks and wails
and doubts and shame
amidst love and joy
and sweat and sinew,
felt my own self
writhe in my womb
and have repeatedly seen
entangled in the mass of
dead tissue and blood
wailing pulsating and pounding
the parturition of my identity.
Ronnie (Feb 2004)
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