The Blood is The Life The monthly issue of my mother, which is the substance that makes up my bones, my brain, and my own blood...is much more meaningful to me than that of a fictious Jewish carpenter I do not feel that we are conscious enough of what the how insane the patriarchy has rendered us The ways in which we deny the power of womanhood are so manifold and have become so commonplace to us that we usually are not fully aware of them Most of us believe that the most spiritually cleansing substance, flowed from wounds inflicted on a young rabbi who was hanged for teaching foreign doctrines in Palestine some 2000 years ago A courageous revolutionary young Afrikan its true. But we've never seen him, never touched him, we do not even have concrete proof of his existence...but most of us believe that his blood can remove our "sins" can return us to some euphoric state of innocence...can heal and cleanse us YET the blood that flows from the holy of holies, the sacred wombs of our grandmothers, our mothers, our sisters, our wives is denounced as UNCLEAN This very blood that issues from the birth canal, the path that we all take to begin this journey of life...that flows regularly from the women we love....from those who nurture us, dry our tears, feed, shelter and clothe us The very elixir that is the foundation for each cell, each nerve, every little bit of bone and sinew that we use to live life every day somehow that blood is BAD is LOW is DISGUSTING is UNCLEAN The patriarchy is nothing if not illogical What types of tortures had to be rendered on the Ancestral Mothers to cause us to overlook this very obvious truth? How many "witches" were burned? How many "root workers" hanged? What happened that caused us to stop believing our eyes to this extent? Yes there is power in the blood there is healing in the blood Yes the blood IS the life and the blood of life does not require a champion books do not need to be written about it or scriptures chanted over it it simply IS POWER there is no power greater than the mysterious power of life itself and this power IS in the blood |
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