Heroines' Transcendence

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Heroines transcend with quiet or loud deliberation;

Some ascend with screams of anguish

For lives taken in a physical struggle

They were too small to win;

Heroines transcend voices that said you

Can't or won't;

That small businesses fail

And you'll never be a CEO;

Which forced many to go and pound signs

Into their own doors where even doubters

Are forced to read them;

Heroines finish years of study

To knock on male doors and say

I'm as qualified as you

To come in;

Heroines can live simple lives--

Or so they seem,

Until you see the sky

Lit up behind them

With love or loss, accomplishment and sacrifice;

They transcend illnesses;

Knowing when they have to give in and rest

And when they can carry on:

"I might miss something," they say;

Heroines see the truth

And own it and laugh at simple joys;

Transcendence has become

A part of them like shining skin

And holiness they prayed

And courage they lived

And love they know. 

Written in 1998 by Connie Nelson Ahlberg

Honoring Susan Fisher - Luminous Heart/Luminous Soul

2/17/1948 - 8/21/2011