Insomniac pome

[ailbhe]

There is a hippie in my head
With wind-chimes in her hair
Who warns "A section means you're weak -
It shows you do not care."
She peers from out her beaded fringe
To mock my "green" credentials;
"It's not enough," she coldly says,
"To honestly like lentils.
You must suffer for your love,
To prove your worth as Mother.
The bath of child-bed blood's the way;
Earth-Mothers know no other."
And so I know I cannot be
The hippie girl who lived in me.

Comments

[jonnynexus.livejournal.com]

Just a two-penneth from someone who you don't know, but who reads your journal via a friend's friends page. Hope you don't mind me chiming in.

I remember a (male) comedian once making a very good point: people never talk about "natural" dentistry, do they?

My take on it is that if you are able to have a baby without medical intervention, then that's good, in the same way as it's good to live your life without getting ill. Given a free choice, we'd all like to need as little medical intervention as possible in our lives. In other words, I mean "good" in the sense purely of "nicest for the person concerned" without any "moral worth" attached to it in any way.

But anyone who says that you should feel bad about yourself because medical intervention was required is making about as much sense as (for example) someone who says that people who survived cancer through chemotherapy have somehow failed as human beings because they needed medical treatment to survive.

[jonnynexus.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that should have gone in as a general comment, not a reply. (Just wanted to avoid any confusion).