Urgent Message from Mother

Poem by ~~

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.  

quoted from Urgent Message from Mother, 

Gather the Women, Save the World

Circle up, sisters! 

The time to save our world -- for our grandchildren, for our fellow species--is NOW.

Untapped source of peace,

The only real hope

Is to draw upon the collective wisdom of women.

Those with direct experience of the cost of war:

The life of child, grandchild, sibling, spouse,

The loss of limb or mind of someone near and dear,

The loss of laughter, the pervasiveness of fear,

The loss of hope for the future.

Untapped source of peace,

Those who have known domestic violence:

Seen the effect of bullying on sons,

Seen daughters become silent,

Seen light go out in their eyes.

Those who know

That when every child matters,

When none are hungry, abused, or discounted,

The world will become a kinder place

For us all.

Untapped source of peace,

Women with empathy

Who live in a world apart,

Are safe, loved, and fortunate,

Yet can imagine

Being helpless, beaten, and raped,

Then forced to bear a child

Conceived in violence.

Women who know in their hearts

That what happens to any woman

Anywhere

Could happen to them.

Untapped source of peace,

Women who see loved ones filled with vengeance and hate,

Hypervigilant, fear-ridden, or afraid to sleep

Because of the nightmares.

Husbands, brothers, sons and now daughters

Home from wars,

Bearing little resemblance to who they could have been

In a peaceful world.

Untapped source of peace,

Women in circles,

Women connecting,

Women together

Bringing the sacred feminine,

Maternal instinct, sister archetype,

Mother power

Into the world.

Poem by ~~

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.  

quoted from Urgent Message from Mother, 

Gather the Women, Save the World