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As he kicked frantically in her womb

She stopped to catch her breath
Cheeks flushed fuchsia
Sultry summer breeze sliding through the trees
Emotion rippled across her swollen belly
Self-laden with doubt
Once again the last child
Standing against the wall in solitude
An imposter.
Hoping not to be discovered.

As frost laid herself down sliver-thin
Tall grass sepia-hued needles pricking the fragile landscape
Trees stripped naked of their foliage
Jagged borders cloaked
The purest of white slender necked swans speckling the water
Regal ebony-inked beaks
Trumpeters in flocks
Hidden away, yet found in the simplest of ways
Appeared to her.
They enveloped her core
Blanketing her with downy wings
Speaking in tongues that soothed her ear.

As the frozen landscape transformed
from blinding white across months to aubergine
Thrice repeating itself
That familiar breeze has claimed the land again
She stops to catch her breath
Cheeks flushed fuchsia
Her sanctuary nestled in the walls of their minds
No longer an imposter

Discovered.