Poetry

Believing Woman

What is it that she seeks?What sacrifice should a believing woman make? Surely not the freedom of her soul to be real and complete in order to disappear into the whims of a man’s desires and conceits? Is she a worldly comfort for the other gender, or is she a fully-realized being whose comforts are blessings not constrained by constructs of others  nor ever claimed to be possessed and traded by them as commodities or leveraged against her soul?

What is it that she seeks?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who is a believing woman that she should be yours?

Which women are not existing merely for the comfort and elevation of others,
their humanity an inconvenience
but women with trust placed in God,
whose souls resist subjugation and dependence on people
and who know God is the only one on whom they can rely?

Women who give themselves freely
to the one who will not hurt them
– neither through ignorance nor arrogance –
but rather to one who is merciful
and honors their complex femininity
and does not cheapen it, sell it, abuse it, confuse it nor deride it.

Is a believing woman out of sight, out of mind, out of heart?
In the dark night she rises for communion with one whose heart can hold her
one who she can accept as guardian and leader without fear of error
for what greater misfortune befalls a believing woman but to be held
by a weak man or a prideful one or an angry one or a misguided one 
or one who is farther from God than she is?

Which man’s heart can be entrusted with hers so that she is uplifted by it toward her Creator?

What sacrifice should a believing woman make?
Surely not the freedom of her soul to be real and complete
in order to disappear into the whims of a man’s desires and conceits?
Is she a worldly comfort for the other gender, or is she a fully-realized being
whose comforts are blessings not constrained by constructs of others
nor ever claimed to be possessed and traded by them as commodities
or leveraged against her soul?

A believing woman is selling nothing and must fight being sold.
She struggles for education and enlightenment
But rather she is told her salvation is in servitude,
and some would have her serve them rather than God
and tell her that only by this indirect means can she draw near 
to the One she seeks.

She alone is not worthy or capable of approaching Him of herself, they believe
and she has no real value or piety unless she gives herself to one of them.
But what greater misfortune befalls a believing woman than to be held
by a weak man or a prideful one or an angry one or a misguided one 
or one who is farther from God than she is?

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