"For Strong Women"

~A Strong Woman

is a Woman

who Loves Strongly, Weeps Strongly,

and has Strong Needs.

~A Strong Woman

is Strong in Words,

in Action,

in Connection,

in Feeling;

~She is not Strong as a Stone, 

but as a Wolf suckling her Young.

~Strength is not in Her, 

but She enacts it

as the Wind fills a Sail.

What Comforts her

is others Loving Her Equally

for the Strength and the Weakness

from which it issues,

Lightning from a Cloud.

Lightning stuns.

In Rain the clouds disperse.

Only Water of Connection remains,

Flowing Through Us.

Strong is what We make each other.

~Until We are Strong Together, 

a Strong Woman

is Strongly Afraid.

~Marge Piercy;

"The Moon is Always Female" 

                                                                                                                         ~Beannaichte'(1-26-12)