I gave you life

free verse

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I gave you life
I gave you death
A motherly goddess
Inside the sweetness of the warm breast,
of nurturing milk.
Did I fall back?
Did I hold you too tight?
How thin is the three-day life?
From sleep to despair
I stayed in your coldness
Until the heat of others’ life.
I can not say how a bat sings.
I can not count my hair.
I am still with you in the cold.
Sleep won
And I fell back over you
Like a heavy stone.
How thin is the three-day life?