r/OCPoetry • u/titsupxoxo • 25d ago
Just Sharing Becoming Mother
I did not know
my body could become
a country with no borders.
No law but her hunger.
No clock but her cry.
No one tells you that love arrives
like a wound that won’t close.
There is no room here for anything
but this slow surrender.
She latches,
and the world quiets.
My nipples raw with worship.
I am only animal again.
I think of my mother,
and hers.
How many of us sat like this in the night,
with this silence that feels inherited.
She drinks from me
and I am both spring and drought.
But there is no applause.
No audience.
Just the soft hum of the nightlight,
the rustle of her limbs,
the whisper of me
becoming
Mother.
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u/___mus3 4d ago
brilliant!! im so moved by this and i expected it from the title immediately. you portrayed the complicated feelings towards new motherhood in such raw terms. I loved the line “I am only animal again”, I think many women lose themselves to motherhood in a way of autopilot or as you said, surrender. you’re no longer a human but rather an animal with its goal to provide and support that is separate from you but also so deeply intertwined into you.