Imagine a woman who believes it is right and
good she is a woman.
A woman who honors her experiences and tells her stories.
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and
life.
Imagine a woman who believes she is good.
A woman who trusts and respects herself.
Who listens to her needs and desires, and meets them
With tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who has acknowledged the past’s
influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and to
her wisest voice.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs her own spirituality and allows it to inform her
daily life.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates her body and its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite
resource.
Imagine a woman who honors the face of
the Goddess in her changing face.
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her
wisdom.
Who refuses to use precious energy disguising the changes
in her body
And
life.
The poem was written by Patricia Lynn Reilly, M.
Div.
Copyright: 1995. Visit her website at www.imagineawoman.com
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