HOPE

In Honor of International Women's day...I'm reposting this... 

I speak as to the vulnerability of woman                     

A gentle embracing fragrance

Encapsulating the parts of mankind

And antiquity.

Wisdom finds itself among the captured, the hurt, the priceless.

Encircling universal

Her gentle touch

A whisper in the wind brings her to her knees,

And she finds herself among common people, the babies,  the toddlers, the forlorn.

Wind-swept and kept

She struggles to  maintain, to keep up the pace, to fight noises of the night

Which awaken.

If she could only learn to embrace the bellowing, the howling and speak

Find the voice within which calls her to these palaces and shanties.

The walls of gentle and crumbling brick

Yet a fortress withstands, withholds and welcomes

All who are willing.

To  take their place among the peoples

Realizing that she is not only woman, she is part of mankind

Which goes beyond gender

The rulings, the manifestos

Creeds of the ages

Each has heard the cries that concern.

Reaching out to touch those who no longer want to be touched.

But rather want to listen to the soft mellow beckoning of the wind

Embrace its folds and retreat into a surrender

Not to listen, to ignore, not ponder

There must be something more...

Hope Springs Life Eternal