Will Hornyak: For Mothers and the Great Mother

This is simply extraordinary. Amazing, deep, beautiful, heartfelt and soulful, loving and Sacred. Thank you so much to our incredibly gifted friend, Will. Deepest gratitude. 🙏💗 Molly

For Mothers and the Great Mother

 

Blessed be

Mothers of children

Mothers of hearth fires and homes

Mothers of ideas and imagination

Mothers of magic, mystery and wisdom

Mothers of holy flames

Mothers of holy causes

Mothers of revolutions

Midwives of creative brilliance

Wombs of infinite compassion

Wombs of wild courage.

 

Blessed be

Those who give

The milk of themselves freely

To this world

Who sow seeds

Of vision and kindness

Who birth beauty

Lead, nourish

Heal and mend

The torn fabric

Of this world.

 

Blessed be

The fierce souls

Who make medicine

Of past pain

And birth themselves

Again and again

From unspeakable sorrows.

 

Blessed be

Mother Earth

From whose clay

We are formed

From whose womb

We are born

To whose tomb

We will return. 

 

Blessed be the immortals

Inanna, Athena, Yemanja

Maeve, Mary, Brigit, The Magdalene

Scheherazade, Freya, Pachamama

Pele, Kali, Kwan Yin

And countless others

 

Who dwell in the spirit

Of the Great Mother

Who births, sustains

Protects and nourishes

The myriad forms

Of this world.

 

— Will Hornyak 

 

 

(Dedicated to my mother Katherine Kennedy Hornyak, my sister Nancy Hornyak and my beloved wife Concetta Antonelli)