Vessel

Vessel
Digital, 2014
by Jay Bendt

…

Dear Daughter,

You carry the universe in the strength of your thighs
Its beauty in your heart
and the power to birth it in your womb.
You carry the history of Time inside your head.
Your feet were made of the strength of your ancestors;
Of their pains and their struggles,
Of their joys and their triumphs.
Your fingertips carry the miracle of the future you can weave.
Make it yours.
You are Time.
You are Strength.
You are all of creation and all its destruction;
everything that came before you, and everything that comes after you.
Should the world ever try to bring you down, remind it that you are bigger than it is.
Remind it that you are the universe.