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I Want to Go Back to My Womb

By Judith Barr

As with everything else, our relationships with our bodies and our reproductive selves are both deep and inner as well as active and outer.

In these challenging times, perhaps this poem, and those published with it, will help inspire countless people to take action both inner and outer to bring our rights back to life

I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY WOMB

I want to go back to the womb.
I want to go back to the womb.
But not the womb you think.
Not my mother’s womb, not your womb.
I want to go back to my own womb …

There’s power there
I’m only beginning to know.
There’s life there I’m just beginning to dream.
There’s comfort there I can never find outside.
There’s Wisdom there to be touched, tapped by a willing soul.
There’s Knowledge there to be heard.
Knowledge waiting to be seen.
Knowledge wanting to be felt.
Knowledge longing to be loved.

I want to go back to my womb.
It’s where I belong.
It’s where I belong with myself.
Where I belong to myself.
It’s where I birth myself with goddess as midwife.
I want to go back to my womb.

 

© 1990, Judith Barr; edited 2022.
The Call of My Blood Mysteries
2nd MP3, Track 3
“I Want to Go Back to My Womb.”

 

THE CALL OF MY BLOOD MYSTERIES

By Judith Barr

The Call of My Blood Mysteries

  was my first publicly published writing.
Birthed in 1990, it became the first cassette and
eventually the first mp3 in the series
The Spoken Word on Behalf of the Feminine.

 Its purpose –
to help heal the individual and collective trauma caused
to women and society by the patriarchy.
To help heal the individual and collective trauma
– physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual –
created by those who were or became part of the patriarchy …
in their inner worlds and the world outside.

Since then, I have written, spoken, and taught often
about this same theme,
including in my most recent book, How Did We Get Here?

But …
it is clear to me that what is occurring in our country right now
makes it necessary to bring out to you once again,
The Call of My Blood Mysteries.

 Side One:

 The Red Moon
I Hear the Voice Within
A Menstrual Journey: The Old and the Dark
I’m Just a Teenager
My Period
Cycles of Death and Birth

 Side Two: 

I Live in the House of My Father
Mama
I Want to go Back to My Womb
A Menstrual Journey: The New, The Light, and the Possibility
I am the Flame, Mother of Truth

 

To learn more, to be inspired and empowered,
to make sure you have a copy for yourself and your own healing –
inner and outer…
and to be sure you have a way to gift copies
to others who need to do their own healing –
inner and outer…

 https://judithbarr.com/audio-tapes/spoken-word-on-behalf-of-the-feminine/

 

 

 Doing what I love – helping people heal –
together we work to heal past trauma
and prevent future trauma …
individually and communally.

 

© Judith Barr, 2022.