We Women

We women are divine and powerful in our own right.
We are divine in our gentleness
and we are powerful in our stillness.
We are divine in our compassion
and powerful in our courage.
And above all,
we are divine in our vulnerability
and powerful in our ability to overcome.
For it is through these means
that we bring medicine to those who suffer,
it is through these means
that we gently apply a salve
over the wounds of the world.

Women have the capacity
to hold a space of healing
for suffering in all its forms,
for we know,
often from walking through our own fires,
what is needed to heal.
Yes, suffering belongs to all humanity,
and therefore the potential to heal others belongs to all,
however,
a woman's perceived vulnerability
makes her quiet presence
more apt at providing comfort;
It is in a woman's gentle stillness
that the restless, wounded souls are soothed.

Women who turned their trials and tribulations into fertilizer,
who thrust their roots deep into the darkness that once surrounded them
and pushed themselves out of the manure...
women who came out of the firestorms of life
with buckets of wisdom and water
ready to quell the fires around others...
they are the strongest, fiercest, and bravest of healers.
We women are divine and powerful in our own right.
We women are strong and courageous in our own right.