Brigid

I am fire, I am earth

I am death, I am rebirth,

I am water, I am air,

I am joy, I am despair,

I am all elements and elementals,

I am hope, I am prophecy,

I am you, I am your destiny,

My blood, is your blood,

My passion is your passion,

I am the mirror image of you,

You are the mirror image of me,

I am all the words,

And all the mouths that ever spoke them,

I am all the tears in all the eyes that ever shed them,

I am the sweet choking joy of remembering,

Who you are and why you are here,

I am the womb of the world,

The place within, you go to explore your darkness,

I also house the constellation where you discover your light,

I am the suckling babe of humanity,

And the eternal breast whose milk never dries,

I am all polarity and sameness,

I am all Life, and all Death,

The earth is my body,

The wind is my breath,

The fire is my passion,

The water is my all encompassing emotions,

You are my children,

I give birth to you,

I support you during life,

I destroy you,

And welcome you home in death, over and over again,

Do you hear me call on the dark night,

Waking you to love,

Tickling some with feathers into wakefulness,

Shaking some at the very core to remember,

That I am everything, and nothing too,

That I am in you and you are in me,

And we are the same,

That my face is your face,

And when you hurt my body, you hurt your own,

Your pain is mine,

I am the cauldron of creation,

Housed in every belly, male and female, hear my call,

Know you are one,

Take of my fullness,

Take of my emptiness,

Drink me in,

I am Brigid,

I am Pure Love

Erin Shannon 1998