Friday, January 8, 2010

birth and death

it's been a month since i posted something--i suspect it is due to the sameness of days.

the holidays passed without much fanfare... i live here at miss ruby's now, and, i found the two main people in my world at this point are on parallel roads in life.

miss ruby and hrh move with slower and slower steps. each changed how they eat. each one listens with an inner ear to some voice we do not hear. hrh waits impatiently for the birth of her son, miss ruby waits patiently for her body to finally fail, giving her birth into that next place of our existence.

hrh sat next to me in the theater on christmas day, holding my hand on her ever moving tummy...our little lad slowly flipping and twisting, trying to fit his already over average body size in her tiny self. miss ruby sat next to me later that day, holding my hand, telling me she knows her husband still watches for her from the other side...she knows this because he put us back in each other's lives again.

i agree.

hrh rests more and more, taking cat naps during the day. miss ruby's sleep time is now around 15 hours a day. while hrh is up quite often in the night, finding it difficult to fall back into sleep, miss ruby lies down and doesn't change position for the 12 hours she sleeps in the night.

they both take pills... vitamins for hrh, a plethora of pills of varying shapes and sizes for miss ruby. both have that look of waiting on their faces.

both have me in their lives, waiting with them, loving, caring, concerned. a birth and a death. these two things wait to happen in my life...

two things that will change my life forever, each in their own way.

8 comments:

Cormac Brown said...

So goes the circle, and hrh will blog the same thing, some thirty-five years or so, from now.

austere said...

The timelessness of it all...

And yet.

Anonymous said...

Both of them are so fortunate to have you and your special presence along on their journeys.

Alone on the Isle said...

You capture the wonder and sadness of his beautifully; I am both happy and sad for you. Both individuals are lucky to have you in their lives.

raino said...

so beautiful quin. beautiful analogy.

peggy said...

oh quin. eloquent.

vinny said...

They are both so lucky. To have you waiting with them.

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