THE MILLENNIUM OF THE WOMAN
Congratulations Congressional Wave Women of America
You are achieving the goal of gender equality that nature intended for women and fulfilling the promise yearned for over many centuries. The Great Earth Mother loves you and will help you to have faith in yourselves. Let us hope this poem will also inspire you to do the great deeds you are now in a position to accomplish. Our Time is Now.
from
The Right of the Womb
EINGANA – The Indigenous Great Earth Mother
Women of this NEW MILLENNIUM
Do your research well,
And meet me at Nirvana’s gate
With your very own story to tell.
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EINGANA
Will the women of all the world please rise up
And please stand up!
Stand up on every platform,
Take your place in every room
In every government and every religion
Rise up and take the RIGHT OF THE WOMB.
The summons has been issued and we have our part to play.
We are half the population
We cannot wash responsibility away.
Together we shall ferret out
The root of what some call evil,
Not in bodies and bloody battles,
Not in terrorist terminology,
And not in the cavernous tomb,
But in the sacredness
Of that which is the most sacred,
The MYSTERY of OUR WOMB.
(Eingana calls out the names and a woman speaks)
SAPPHO
Oh my beloved, the songs I sang you
Were for all eternity!
Plato and Socrates, I thank you
That you appreciated me,
That I was educated in your cities
And all my followers were equal and free!
BUDDHA’S COUSIN
Oh my Buddha, why deny me,
What you offer to my brothers
Why can I be just a nun forever
With the Buddha in my blood?
MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
Oh Jesus my son, I gave you birth,
Something you could not do,
With all your love, all your caring,
Give me EQUALITY too.
KHADIJA, WIFE OF MOHAMMED
Rejoice husband, I am come again,
You are the prophet of this people.
You did refuse to traffic,
You did transcend the tribes,
Remember Mohammed?
YOU DID IT WITH ME
YOU AND I MOHAMMED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!
You and I together for fifteen years
Until the visions came.
Remember Mohammed, I was your equal then
And you NEED ME NOW!
RUTH
Where you go I will go but in the next millennium my beloved
It will take more than a husband, it will take recognition of me as myself
Me, as myself beloved –
Remember I AM THE OTHER.
EINGANA
Women of this NEW MILLENNIUM
Do your research well,
And meet me at Nirvana’s gate
With your very own story to tell.
Originally published in There are no Enemies, by Mary Mann
