Wisdom

Sophia

I love this name--this name bestowed upon my best friend's baby. Sophia means Wisdom; her name is appropriate, methinks. She showed enough sense to want to stay cuddled up in her mother's womb. After she passed the week and a half mark from her due date, the doctors decided to induce her. Sophia, and Laura's labor, began.

While Laura labored for her unborn baby, trying for 34 hours to expel what her heart longed to hold, Sophia labored to remain in a sweet symbiotic stasis.

The world called for Sophia to come into being,
while Sophia, in a primordial state of being,
would not rent herself away from the self she did not know as (m)other.

This angelic parasite was not clever enough for the violent rendering of a doctor's wit, and so she came

turning
down
the birth canal

Sophia, her self bei-
ng split asunder,
twisted again
wedging shoulder first
just before the opening

Sophia, poor sophia, you wise little girl!

You entered abjectly
and here you remain
a precious new being
a beautiful baby girl
for lovers of wisdom to write musings about.