Everywoman

Everywoman

By Toni Truesdale

Everywoman,

Emerged from

The rule of four horsemen of Europe:

War, famine, pestilence, and death;

To survive the hypocrisy of

Brutal inquisitional judgments.

Everywoman,

Our ancestor from the west,

Endured the precarious birth of many children;

Nurturing each precious flicker of life that

That might be left hungry

So the aristocracy could be fed;

Training her daughters into servitude if not slavery

To serve the privileged classes.

Everywoman,

Written out of history,

As if she never existed;

Robbed of spiritual significance,

Stripped of speech, property and inheritance;

Denied position in her maturity

Severed from matriarchy.

Everywoman

The ancestor that survived...

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