Fetal Position
There is a safety to curling up,
pulling into a ball so that you resemble
a rock, the immoveable things of the earth.
They call it the fetal position.
But is it really so vulnerable,
when you are curled into yourself
and tucked away, safe inside a mother
whose very body protects you from the world?
You are untouchable then, in a way.
With a life between you and everything else.
There’s a safety there,
knowing that somebody else
has wrapped you as completely as ever
a human can be, all curled up into
the shape of a rock, fetal position.
Quill Aquiver 