She has tasted defeat

More often than anyone sees

But always

She returns

She is more than human

More than mortal

Stars swim within her skin

And her minds opens like galaxies

Who would ever dare

Reduce her to nothing

Treat her as object

When she is power

Wandering the earth

On two legs

Such foolishness

Played out over time:

Denying the divinity

Within the familiar form

Still she dances

To moon music only she hears

Misunderstood

By all who see her steps

Until her magic

Lifts their blindness

And light is cast golden

As far as imagination can reach – Caroline A. Slee