Mother

    As the sun lifted and hues of orange yellow and red spread through the horizon, she opened her eyes slowly nestled perfectly in his form with an alive tension in her muscles as she held onto him.  'Not long now' the softness of his rumble gave her chills as waves of pleasure ran through her body.  She had never felt this complete before and there was no force in creation that could separate them now.  Closing her eyes again, a serene peace overfilled her.  In that place, her being rocked by him in rhythmic intervals, there was nothing she needed or wanted.  He dipped his body gentelly to let the water run over her form wetting her skin and the silk kimono again to her.  With the fabric slick, clinging to her skin, it felt like water armor, strong and soft.  It was the closest feeling to what having scales would feel like, that she could imagine. 
     She felt him emanate a soft gruff that caused her body to sit up and look forward.  Before them was land in a crescent shape with great trees covering its form that ascended to a peak in the far center where she could make out the form of one great tree, overlooking the land, ocean, and all upon it.  She was memorized by the site as she had seen this tree in her dreams.  Visions of all life having one source.  The pulse of mother earth beating in one place so strongly that any creature could feel it.  Resting in the roots of her great form was her only desire and as he approached she could do nothing else but run towards the great tree. 
   Though the beach and around the bushes.  Up the moist soils through the palms and needle point pines.  Her breath quicker, pumping the oxygen rich air through her lungs energizing every cell of her form.  She did not stop for a moment, with no question or thought running through her mind.  She was now a nature spirit weaving lightly in between the trees, her feet barely touching the soil.  Here her heart knew itself a part and parcel of a whole.  A feeling she had not experienced from before her birth.  Here she was one with Her.  "Mother!" tears ran down her cheeks as the trees thickened.  "Mother!" as the trees parted , she stood before Her.  She fell to her knees placing her head on the moist, rich earth and inhaled.  Weeping madly, taking the earth covering her form in it, as she rolled her body heaving deep sobs.  'You are home my child '.  The words came slowly with each syllable softening all the tension in her body.  Laying there looking up at Her branches, her hands resting on Her sensitive, powerful roots.  She knew she one now and never again would she feel separated.