The Vibrant Channeled Creator

by Byron Schachner

Morning Prayer
by Meghan Sterling

It is the beginning. It is the beginning
when there was you. It is the beginning when there
was you and me and her, before it all just became life,
when it was new. Can you remember?
We are there now, again,
standing at the beginning where we can hold
the new of her, the new of who we had just become,
our new names. Mother. Father.
Taking these names from our ancestors,
all the others who were what we are now,
taking these names out of the air
before we have a chance to try them on.
Our new names. Standing at the edge of water,
praying for our daughter’s safety.
It is the beginning when there was you and me and her
and the water that’s rising—
oceans, lakes, rivers, streams,
all rising on this morning
still soft with the night that was just here.

Meghan Sterling, “Morning Prayer” from These Few Seeds. ©2021 Meghan Sterling published by Terrapin Books.