Lilith
I Am Lilith, the shadow sister.
I Am not captured by a net of lies.
Eve has been confused, co-opted.
I Am the untamed part of Eve
that can never be enslaved.
I grow an owl’s wings
and fly away over the walls of fear.
They say I was Adam’s first wife,
the Rebel who would not be abused.
While men are impotent
with lies and violence,
I Am the frigid whore of dreams
they hate and fear.
I Am fatherless, husband-less,
son-less: whole.
When it becomes possible again,
I shall be the Friend,
the honored Beloved.
No one can be a father
who has forsaken the Mother.
The respect of the future
cannot be stolen.
They say I was expelled
from the garden, outcast,
but the Garden is within Me.
It is not time for My repose.
There is the future to midwife,
Earth's Garden to be reclaimed.
Now it is a desert
where truth is not.
I Am the Tree of Life.
I offer My breasts as apples,
and My fruit is Renewal.
Paradise flies with Me, My cloak,
for My wings are Holy Wisdom.
I Am the healing power
welling from the center of life.
I Am the Mystery before time
at the heart of all.
I create the substance of life
out of My emptiness.
© Tamara Rasmussen 2018