A poem a day for 2013 - day 99 - Preach! Woman! Preach!

Do not tell me
About your calling from God
To heal even a corner
Of this world
With words
With fingers touching
Grabbing
Reaching in to the leprosy
Of hate and fear
And then tell me
That God would have you disappear
That God would dare unbreast you
What God would silence your woman story

Who can sing like Bird
Better than Bird
What will clean the air
More thorough than Tree
Mountain will not apologize
For being in the way
Ocean has yet to make amends
For the souls that it has swallowed
It is Ocean after all
Ocean
What else did we expect
We adjust to the night
Under Moon
And her womanist ways
She does not offer disclaimer
When she steps naked to the sky
For not being Sun

And so why do we
Beg forgiveness
With all we have to give
To say
We carriers of life
And World

Spit shine your uterus
And set it on the pulpit