Remain*

 Remain in me he said
And my words remain in you

And just as the rain and the snow

Come down from heaven

And do not return to it 

Without watering the earth

And making it bud and flourish

So cells went out from my mother
They slipped

The wall between us
And like seeds they remained

Where no one thought to look
The heart the liver
The folded rooms of the brain

Decades on
They are there still
Quiet as snow
Rising to mend
What breaks in me

And when what breaks

Lies bare and raw

Wailing like a siren

His word from ancient days

Comes down to quiet it 

She in me

And now I in them

Tendrils twining like a vine

My cells planted in my sons

Mending replenishing

His words my cells

His ways are higher than ours

And he wrote them even here 

He said so is my word that goes from my mouth

It will not return to me empty

But will accomplish what I desire

And will achieve the purpose 

For which I sent it

Out in joy

Led in peace

*An aspect of microchimerism is when fetal and maternal cells cross the placenta and remain in the body for decades.

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