Imagine A Woman
Imagine a woman who believes it is right
Imagine a woman who believes she is good.
Imagine a woman who has acknowledged
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
a woman who honors the face of
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
Imagine yourself as this woman.
Patricia Lynn Reilly
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.
A woman who trusts and respects herself.
Who listens to her needs and desires,
and meets them With tenderness and grace.
the past's influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
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.
A woman who imagines the divine
in her image and likeness.
Who designs her own spirituality
and allows it to inform her daily life.
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.
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.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about
herself when she forgets.
