"I was there in the room"

This was a very interesting piece. Upon reading I was at first confused but steadily progressed in my interpretation. whoever told this story was talking about a baby being born and her experience in the room actually witnessing the event. I really liked the metaphors used when she was talking about the vagina as the baby came out; "I was there when her vagina changed from a shy sexual hole to an archeological tunnel, a sacred vessel, a venetian canal, a deep well with a tiny stuck child inside, waiting to be rescued." She also mentions seeing "all the colors of the vagina" and I think that this goes beyond the actual experience, I think she uses the graphical language to dip into the hardships women face and the "secrecy" of the vagina that for some reason we still see today, how everyone gets uncomfortable when the word is used. "saw the bruised broken blue, the blistering tomato red, the gray pink the dark; saw the blood like perspiration" I think she uses this intentionally to make the reader feel uncomfortable to perhaps make the reader feel like the women in labor? Towards the end she related the vagina to the heart, and some of the analogies she brought up to link the two I thought were pretty interesting "The heart is capable of sacrifice so is the vagina the heart is able to forgive and repair so is the vagina" etc. However I'm still not quite sure what shes trying to get it in comparison of the two. Perhaps trying to say if there was no vagina there would be no life which is technically true. I think this story illustrates well the effort Ensler put it to soften people up when the vagina is being talked about particularly at the end when she compares it to the heart.