17. MANIFESTING THE LIGHT

Sisters are refugees

Fleeing the conflagration

Of the Patriarchal world

Never designed to know them.

Sisters come together

To rediscover the True Light.

In a book by Marija Gimbutas

They found ancient script

To paint on their bodies

To express their souls

In this primordial pond

In this primordial bond

One of the three is a

Palestinian Moslem

Named Susan;

Her dark brown eyes

Sparkle like

Eternal stars

In the velvet night.