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What These Old Breasts Have Taught Me | Poem

 
 

Music: John Lennon's "Grow Old With Me"

WHAT MY OLD BREASTS TAUGHT ME

 
 

To protect what is valuable
and vulnerable to the world

To soften to need, to harden
against pain

To know milk flows at the cry of a child
whether it will or not

To move to different modes
when the child cries for other reasons

To blossom to touch
to remain strong
without caresses

To give and give and never give up

- Karen Alkalay-Gut
 

to Karen   /   to Moongate

Painting by Ken Peters


 
 


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