Gratitude always falls short of intention,
leaving only a fiction of our meaning, 
when silence descends blinking neon emotions
 and a void, rather than a hoped for event horizon of joy.

But, it's how you transcend that shimmers humanity,
makes doubt ephemera and avoids conclusion.
No longer a skulker in spiky weeds,
 you emerge radiant in a woman's wisdom.

Likely, it comes from a mother's nurture, 
but the solitude of silence, these your father's whispers.
So, you've escaped both superficial and awkward,
arisen the womb unscathed --- Proceed to middle age!

Though perception often baffles understanding,
human genomes revel in such challenge.