The Female Imperative

It is the Female Imperative that Saved Us

The Female Imperative

And this I know

And wanted to say to you

At some point before I die.

Maybe now

Maybe later if I’m stupid

So hear me out wife:

This is my final testimony:

With death calling

More times than I can recall or count

I saw your face, your image, your spirit

Before me briefly before each terror

And found then the strength,

The courage, sometimes the breath

To strike back at the evil, the terror,

That came from the desert.

I took up my cross, saddled my horse,

Sharpened my sword and dagger

Reinforced my shield

And joined my soldiers in the Crusade.

Through all the heat, bones, and disease

I saw our flag raised above Jerusalem.

Back now in the land of water and crops,

I know I have done my duty with honor

And thought you should know:

It is the female imperative that saved us,

Which the enemy never knew.