How Blessed It Is To Be A Woman

By: Anne Wimer

how blessed it is to be a woman

to feel sinuous strength of muscles moving

with equine stature down the back of my thighs

to carry the soft heavy lushness of breasts and

to live as a sort of sacramental icon of

the bounteousness of creation brimming forth

with the milky excitement of life

how blessed it is to be a woman

to perceive keen connections amid

emotion and soul, intellect and body

to venerate that connection in all things sensual

how blessed it is to be a woman

compassion's blood moves through my veins

penetrating the heart and thoughts of another

that bridges gaps between race, color, gender and creed

as blood flows and brings vigor to all members of a body

how blessed it is to be a woman

the mystic and the sense united and

so easily misunderstood