september 18th

by jason delph - Cancer

when i think - think back to the significance
of that day - that day when the
    purpose of my life was born into this world, 
i am
filled with an utterly profound connection
to the alignment of the heavens - 
    75 days removed from the first of the breaths
    that i took; children of the same moon,
shifting between a season; one aflame with the
    fires of the lion and the complexities of the 
crab in his shell; the other
   the innocent awakening of life to death;
   the call to slumber of the summer's heat;
   a witching temptress of the Autumn breeze;
we awoke to this place, this time, you not
far behind, chasing me from somewhere
else, attached to my beam, holding onto my
  thread, knowing
    how lost i would be without you;
    how lost we would be without us;
and on this day you smiled upon the earth
and brought light into so many lives; on this day
    your mother's life became the dream you
know she had;
   she touched the one she was the most
   and gave herself to you; looked into 
the eyes of the vessel her spirit would one
day haunt, and she smiled at you
    and cried, i'm sure... because thats what
       joy does to you -

a girl who tames wolves with the songs
  in her eyes; the woman 
who lives with a demon in tow;
a story unlike any ever to be told;

  when i think about this day, i think
that all of my life was given to me
on a a night that will look like tonight;
   that without it there would have 
   remained the emptiness of before you;
you found me before, to come to me here in
this world, and on this day, you made it,
  and when i think of that,
       all i can do is take
       a deep breath and 
wipe away my eyes.

Birth sign: Cancer
Date created: 2001-09-28 17:14:26
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:45:07
Poem ID: 65182

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