Be Fruitful and Multiply by Carson Cawthon

The barren woman
raises laughter,
her daughter.

The unmothered
mothers sisters,
draws near and shares their breath.

The lonely
fathers steps towards water
for those who never thought
they could be made clean.

The mothered and the motherless
the fathered and the fatherless
are still breaking off bits of themselves,
amazed to find
there is more than enough
to go around.

Their love still
multiplies.

Carson Cawthon is a human first and a writer second. She has been published in The Ivy Leaves Journal For Literature and Art, where she was selected as a featured poet, as well as in The Opal Literary Magazine. She has previously worked with both the C.S. Lewis Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute discussing the way Christians should interact in the public sphere. She lives in South Carolina. You can keep up with her on Instagram @carson_cawthon.