Saturday, June 29, 2024

Two Marys Sept. 7, 2013


 Christ had two Marys in His life,

 the virgin and the whore,

He loved them both,

the woman who became his mother

by immaculate conception

the woman who bore witness

to His death on the cross,

both Marys residing in most women,

giving choice to which they might be,

often fluctuating from one to the other

when we foolish and lustful men

 (sometimes women)

 go back and forth from

wanting one or the other,

 sleeping with the women

 who look up at us on our self-created cross,

 yet aching to spend our lives with the other,

 the Madonna who we need to mother our children.

 How does she do it, being both,

 when once she becomes the one,

men won’t want her for the other,

except for those rare men

who like Christ

willing to embrace both as holy.


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