gratitude

It's not easy to 
write a clue for inward (try)
but it's easier

than birthing a child
for twenty plus four hours
redefining love

I would not emerge
until a child emerging
broke my containment

I found my new voice
a worshipful profane growl
for the child in me

she's fiercer than I
could ever have imagined
her silence darker

while the child, fifteen
devotes this hour to Snapchat
a bored miracle