A nun has none of her own, but wants to be a mother, superior.


The Self-Barrened Womb

Your life-giver,
Though God-given,
No pre-born
Will live in.

What kind of choice was it,
To shun your womb
In your marriage to Christ:
To close and entomb
Your only chance
Of immortality?
Abstinence
From your immorality
Sends your earthly
To a displaced land;
Turns your garden,
Into a wasteland.

02:30, Fri. 08/12/2006.



Poetry by Mark J. Wood
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Written on 2006-12-08 at 13:09

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So very true!
And the same could be said about priests. I have met priests who looked as if they could have been god's gift to women, and instead were god's gift to god ;) Though they, being men in a patriarchal structure, are somehow "compensated" by obtaining more power.
Many lives have been destroyed by the church's twisted way of relating to the body and its natural functions and needs.
2006-12-09