ONCE
Once I knew God.
He was not my own
Now I search
My God
Uncontradicting
Equalizing
Genderless
My God does not
Silence me,
But gives me
a voice.
Strong,
not helpless and meek.
My God tells me
to direct my life.
Instead of sending
coded messages needing deciphering.
My God is the
One true God
yet requires more
than one difinitive work
penned by the hands of mere men
and merely men
to be understood
fully, entirely,
in my eyes
and the eyes of
womankind.
--March 7, 1994