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