13/04/2023
Have to share, rise up siStars!
Some writings are easy births and some more difficult. Lilith’s words began with no warning as the first few lines drifted through my consciousness. Then the rest came quickly and unbidden as though there was an urgency to have the words birth in this realm. They are indeed a clarion call to all women in this time to reclaim She Who Would Not Be Constrained, She Who Calls Women Back to Themselves.
Welcome the lone wolf, rebel visionary of all time, Welcome Lilith!
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My Body, Her Body
I walked barefoot on the earth
My feet touching the
body of my mother
My body, Her body.
I bathed under silvery moonlight
In waters glimmering from her shine
My body touching Her body.
Once a month when the moon released
I too released
Giving my life blood back to the Mother
Nourishing her as she nourished me
Mother and daughter in synchronous alignment
My body, Her body.
Then the sky god came
And his people told me I was evil
That my body was shameful and I should cover it
That to bathe naked under the moonlight was satan’s work
And I should cover my body.
That my lifeblood released with the dark moon
Was the most evil of all
And during this time I was unclean
And I should be hidden away
And my body covered.
No longer was I allowed to connect to my Mother
No longer was I allowed to stand in my nakedness
Or to revel in the shimmering moonlight
Or release my moon blood back upon the earth.
They told me I was evil.
They told me I was shameful.
They told me I was dirty.
Then they tossed me out of the garden
My body, Her body.
Well no more!
The veil has fallen from my face!
No longer will I cover my hair, my body!
I am ALL the things they told me NOT to be!
ALL the things they told me I COULD not be!
I AM Lilith
And
I stand in MY Sovereignty!
Screaming forth...
I. Will. Not. Submit.
AND...
You will not get my anger
You will not label my juicy parts evil
Nor will you culturally codify them as shadow
Something to be feared
Something to be hidden.
I am ALL the things you told me NOT to be
All the things you told me I COULD not be
All the things that make me woman.
AND...
I will dance under the light of the full moon
Illuminating the ALL of woman
I will revel in my divinity, my dark, moist woman-ness
I will shine like the stars from whence I came
I will walk naked on the wet, moist earth
For My body is Her body.
Standing in my sovereignty
I re-claim ALL.
My Body.
Her Body.
The Light
AND
The Dark.
No longer will I live in the Shadows
For now I dance in the Full Moon light.
Embracing all your namings of me...
Dark Moon Lilith.
Black Moon Lilith.
I. AM. LILITH!
Let the Revolution begin.
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Writing, My Body, Her Body by Arlene Bailey, ©2018-2023
Art, The Coming of Lilith by Arlene Bailey, ©2018-2023
*Art and Writing previously published in Original Resistance, Reclaiming Lilith, Reclaiming Ourselves, A Girl God Books Anthology, ©2019
