"For Strong Women"

... A Strong Woman

is a woman who Loves Strongly

and Weeps Strongly and is Strongly Terrified 

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 for 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

U.S.A.

~Beannaichte'

8 March, 2013

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