Nurturing

Written for the Talent Pond contest.

Nurturing

What power I must possess
to wend my way
up through the barrier
of this unyielding space.

In the beginning
I started as nothing,
needing something
from two individuals,
the separate parts
becoming one,
joined together in a special place,
at a specific time,
where life began.

I reached upward
toward the sky,
to become an individual.

A unique being.

Standing alone.