learning to see.. learning to be..

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Oh God! You are the only one who could

have set this whole place up, then disappeared.

Although, I s'pose each mother has a good

go at the same job to her children near 

to term, when they might just about be born,

with eyes and ears, and other senses too,

but no chance yet to recognize her form

b'coz they are protected in a room

that's made within her very self, to save

them, in their undeveloped, immature,

state (which  means they have no chance to behave

appropriately, as though they'd had the tour

of ev'rywhere, they have in fact been to

inside the belly of the Mum of them.

My daughter lived for months that way in leaux

of doing tours of India back when

we visited there, months before her birth,

and we knew she would be "safe as a house"

for even though she lived within this Earth,

she needed to develop, not espouse

opinions as to whether Mums exist,

or boast about the places that she's been,

or spruik about the things that she had missed.

Another time, they might be by her seen.

And still her mother cares for, thinks of, her.

Though each is also helping others too,

to speak in language understood, preferred.

I think her Mum has been a bit like you!

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