Wholeness as Life Begins

By Thomas X Corrigan

You have loved me without limit.
Hidden within you I was safe.
Your embrace was warm and soft.
I was constantly cushioned from harm.
You protected me with your whole self
As your body surrounded me and held me.
I began through your act of love
And I was welcomed and wanted.
You nourished me as you nourished yourself
And I was never wanting.
I became the focus of your love,
The hope and joy of your life.
I grew within you as God designs
And you stretched to make room for me.
Your life began to revolve around my coming
And you rejoiced in the miracle within you.
When the time of separation came,
You suffered for me that I might be free from you.
From darkness, warmth and safety within you,
You gave me to the world, so big and frightening.
You had fashioned me to a certain wholeness
And I was a person complete in being.
I was a life completed and whole,
Readied for longer life, but fulfilled without it.
I would know no pain of struggling growth,
No stumbling, no ageing, no tedious learning.
I would be forever free of attachment,
Gaining nothing to eventually let go of.
My body would never be broken;
My mind would never know anguish.
My heart’s brief, independent beating
Would never know the pain of loss.
I would have no fear, no threats;
I would only know love and being wanted.
The best of life you had given to me
And I was spared of spoiling it.
How hard for you to let go of me
And part from me prematurely.
You have lived for me for longer life
And my death ends all your hopes.
Your body broken open for me to birth,
Now shattered in heart you mourn me.
But know you gave me all the life I had.
You embraced me with all the love you could.
There was no lack of gift in your giving
And none of that has been marred by time.
My brief life in the world
Is overshadowed by my long, safe life within you.
It is in God now that I live life to the full,
And as I am with Him, I am with you,
For He is in you and around you, always with you