Mother-Warrior
You are brave, you are Brave
…
You have conquered
…
You have taken in hand
those forces of disintegration
that threatened your existence
You hold them in your hands
your strong hands
they writhe but you hold them fast.
…
Your strength is a-mazing
your courage awesome.
…
Your wild hair flies in the wind.
Your wild eyes flame
– your mouth too.
…
Your sun-kissed naked body
stands firm on the high boulder
if it falls, it flies
if pierced through, it heals.
…
Oh Guerillere
Guerillere – female warrior
…
Your existence
overpowers the death beat
of the nation.
…
Your number is growing.
…
We will take them by storm
we will devour them
transform them in our powerful bodies
excrete them.
With this compost we will cultivate
we will nurture new life.
…
We will do as we have always done.
For a long time now the dynamo has been kept in a sound-proof room under lock and key.
But the dynamo has been seized by those who own it.
Its sound can be heard now
– it is not the loud discordancy of the pnuematic drill.
It is the smooth whirring – of wings beating, of hearts humming.
Its power produces
regenerates.
…
As we have always done, we will do –
Mother-warriors that we are.
…oOo…
© Glenys Livingstone 1980, with additions 2006.
…oOo…
with acknowledgment for imagery to:
Monique Wittig, Les Guerilleres. NY: Avon Books, 1973.
Robin Morgan, “The Network of the Imaginary Mother”, Lady of the Beasts. NY: Random House, 1976.
Charlene Spretnak, The Politics of Women’s Spirituality, NY:Doubleday,1982, p.87.
Published in MODERN WITCH Lughnasad 2008, p.8. and also at Return to Mago, February 20th 2013.

“I liked that ! It was my life !” Claire
dear Claire … so it was, so you are!