You've Wrecked Me, My Child

Words & Photography
by Rachel Castillero



You've wrecked me child.

One second I'm so frustrated with you and then the very next you smile at me and and my world is filled with joy. You make me weak, bring me to my knees, a total failure, then you bring me to new heights, capable of the incapable, full of strength, a strength I NEVER thought I had in me.

You are a PART of me, I sustain you, your biggest comfort, and somehow, you are mine. 

You are a PART of me, I sustain you, your biggest comfort, and somehow, you are mine. I've lost myself completely, as I learn who this new person is. A mother.

This whole experience is the wildest thing I have ever experienced, the hardest, the best, the most intimate. I love you with a love that frightens me. You've wrecked me, my child. In the best and worst ways.