Creative | Posted by Sonia L on 08/27/2010
Lilith
After what you said to him there was never again any truth spoken in the universe. For the first words out of their mouths when they heard you were lies.
Lilith, the burn of dirt and grass on your back when he pushed you down. Lilith of the earth, legs shoulders breasts breathing clay, and they called your name bitch demon monster whore. The next one was weak, was male-fleshed, was Eve was Mary was mother-virgin was learning as you did that opinions are not a girl thing.
Lilith, you spoke the only truth ever spoken in a language so long forgotten that we are just inventing it. Hail Lilith, full of fight and fire. Blessed art thou among women and blessed are your daughters sisters lovers friends. Pray for the sinners who batter rape starve silence your sisters lovers daughters and call their names how they called yours. Lead us to scream to be heard to challenge to change. Lead us into temptation to fight cry talk sing love on earth as it was not in heaven.
Amen.
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Jenna @ at 3:27 pm, August 27th, 2010
This is poignant and powerful. So well-done.
Rachell @ at 4:13 pm, August 27th, 2010
This poem is amazing.
Heather Aurelia @ at 7:38 pm, August 27th, 2010
Awesome!!!
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ZYX @ at 8:23 pm, August 27th, 2010
Hey, this is pretty great, really diggin’ this over here =) Good job, thanks for posting!
Katherine C. @ at 8:24 pm, August 27th, 2010
Very nice, and I say that as a Christian who thinks that the Garden of Eden story was complete shit engineered by the patriarchy to tear womens’ voiceboxes out of their throats in the new order.
You might want to check out these books:
“When God Was a Woman” by Merlin Stone
“The Cult of the Black Virgin” by Ean Begg
Are you interested in these kinds of issues, intellectual and more immediate? I’ve been working on a project based on these themes for a couple years now, and it you’d like to shoot me an email I’d like to talk to you about them.
Stephanie @ at 9:10 pm, August 27th, 2010
beautifully done
Ryan @ at 1:31 am, August 28th, 2010
Oh lord in heaven, protect us from her, the all consummate one. Give us shelter from her entitlements, her inherent value, and the narcisists spirit. Make us no longer her beasts of burden. Grant her not the fruits of our labor and toil undeserved. Release us from her rapture, her rape. Release us from her oppression. Liberate us from her, make us independent of her dependency upon my brothers oh lord.
Dear lord deliver us from she who turns our brothers against themselves and others to quench her insatiable consummation. Give us the strength to hold equal power over her.
blakerivers @ at 8:53 am, August 28th, 2010
Indeed, the sexism inherent in the bible and other religious dogma is rather fetid. One might want to think twice about being dogmatic and being a feminist. Not to say the two cannot be reconciled, but significant effort must be made.
Ryan, you’re so melodramatic that it’s kind of amusing.
Laura @ at 5:30 pm, August 28th, 2010
Ryan, your responses to this post explain so so much about yourself.
This poem isn’t about Eve. It’s about Lilith. Adam’s first wife in the jewish tradition. She told God and Adam that she refused to be subservient to man because she was a woman. She told them that she would refuse to bear children if that is what they demanded. So they told her that she had to leave and turned her into a demon.
This woman, biblically, was the first fucking feminist.
Get your biblical ‘facts’ straight dude.
Sonia L @ at 6:14 pm, August 28th, 2010
Thank you so much to everyone who liked it! I’m still shy about making my writing public and support means a lot. Heather Aurelia, thanks very much for sharing it.
I haven’t actually done any reading on women’s role in the Bible, but I was raised Christian and am pretty familiar with the book. I’ll definitely check out the books that were mentioned.
Zoe @ at 11:11 pm, August 28th, 2010
I am not Christian but I had a reading involving Lilith in my old Women’s Literature class. I would love to read more about her story. It sounds like we could use more women like her.
blakerivers @ at 2:19 am, August 29th, 2010
@Katherine C,
I’d be down with shooting you an email if you want to talk. Forgive me for my ignorance, but how do I find your email address on fbomb?
Anna @ at 4:57 am, August 29th, 2010
That is so sweet!
I’ve just set up my own blog and was wondering if you had any tips on how to get it ‘out there?’
Kali @ at 3:50 am, August 30th, 2010
You did a really great job Sonia L.! I really love the twist you did on the hail mary, it’s just all awesome
I loved it.
Garen @ at 7:20 am, August 30th, 2010
Sonia L, this is bloody incredible. I’ve been trying to find stories about Lilith for aaaagggeeesss! This is so good and powerful; I really love how you’ve subverted the Our Father. And I say that as an ex-Catholic, so I know my Scripture and absolutely love it when it’s used in literature like this.
and on another note…
‘The story of Eden was symbolic and metaphorical. Adams rib, his sacrifice, the serpent, the apple, Eve, her desire for male sacrifice, her feelings of entitlement, the female ego.
The Apple that now and forever is stuck in the throats of men. He should never have given in to the female ego, her sense of inherent value and entitlement. He should resist her now. Her demands for the toil of men and the fruits of our labor, socially,economically and politically. All consummate she is, insatiable.’
WTF, Ryan? the Garden of Eden story wasn’t a metaphor for the dangers of bending to female desire, it written with keeping women in line in mind; it was basically saying that women should be subservient to their husbands/fathers/brothers because it was the will of God and that women owed their creation to men. It also gave everyone an excuse to villify women as witches, as tempters and as weaker than men because they caused the Fall. And no-one here is talking about any sex being subservient to the other; we’re talking about EQUALITY. I suggest you make a date with your dictionary if you don’t understand that.
‘She is not someone to build a relationship or family with, that’s for sure.’
0_o would you really want to build a relationship/family with someone who doesn’t believe in true and harmonious equality between the sexes? You’ll be like the ‘foolish man who built his house on sand’ (Matthew 7:26). The Devil can quote Scripture for her own purposes
Sonia L, you rock, as does your poem.
Katherine C. @ at 12:24 pm, August 30th, 2010
@blakerivers- I put a comment on your blog with my email!
@Ryan- oh please. Are you on the right website? I think it’s kind of funny how you’ve turned to victim-blaming, as so many men do when they realize the system they participate in. OF COURSE the Eden story was manufactured to tell men what happens when they “become subservient to a woman”- that’s the point! It gives men an intellectual excuse to OPPRESS women. Are you honestly saying that men are “oppressed” or “silenced” by women? If so, I have nothing more to say.
bellim @ at 10:13 pm, September 5th, 2010
Poetry doesn’t usually speak to me, but I really loved this.
And please, y’all, don’t waste your energies on Ryan. He’s just here to distract us. Can we IP block him? Trolls usually come back.
Talia bat Pessi @ at 6:56 pm, February 16th, 2011
This is beautiful. So touching. So moving. Lilith is also a Jewish feminist magazine.