There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.

Feldman’s lines frame childbirth as an encounter with an impersonal, elemental force rather than a purely willed act. The “power” is depicted as arriving unbidden—“invading” and “accumulating like clouds”—suggesting both awe and a hint of fear at its magnitude. The weather metaphor emphasizes inevitability and transience: the force gathers, breaks, and then moves on, with the mother serving as the passage through which new life is carried into the world. The quote thus highlights a paradox of agency: the birthing person is central and indispensable, yet the experience can feel larger than the self, as if nature briefly takes over.