For The World

This poem, by Marilyn Peretti (WorldCare) was first posted for UN Women. I can share it here in the Writing/Poetry section too.
For the World

Bring the world’s women
into this century, the 21st,

and one might see some years
of quiet, cooperation, sharing.

May I share a truth: women’s flow
of berry blood does not make

them lowly, unacceptable.
Believe it. Here’s another truth:

women will blaze the earth with peace
when so many childhoods

are not sold or kidnapped,
then used by men, a murderous

theft of their innocent bodies,
minds, their sweetest treasures.

And the world will be light in weight
whizzing across the cosmos

when women are ordained
as priests, serving their own love

to the Church of Life.