Emory Hall: I Have Been a Thousand Different Women

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I Have Been a Thousand
Different Women

make peace
with all the women
you once were.

lay flowers
at their feet.

offer them incense
and honey
and forgiveness

honor them
and give them
your silence.

listen.

bless them
and let them be.

for they are the bones
of the temple
you sit in now.

for they are
the rivers
of wisdom
leading you toward
the sea.

— Emory Hall From Made of Rivers

 

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