For Every Woman
 
 

For every woman
Who rarely stopped
At stop signs
Who shucked convention
Like corn husks
Who only followed rules
In respect for a dead society

For every woman
Who wore her spirit
Like a challenge
Who could not be defeated
In the passionate race
To the finish line
Which never held a prize

For every woman
Who knew fear and laughed
Who knew giving and gave
Who knew love and loved
Who knew peace and slept
Who knew life and lived
Each second of the day

For every woman
Who knew that all time
Like great ocean waves
Would ebb or flow
And that tasting
Their salt of life
Was all that mattered

For every woman
Whose soft words fell
Short of deaf ears which
Like great metal doors
Clanged on cold tombs
Holding dying hearts which
Only needed warming

For every woman
Who has left a legacy
Of love and hope
In a world big or small
Where life and death
Passes in a second
And is finally gone

For every woman
Who has done these things
Knows that as she passes
Through the door to eternity
That all is well and good
In her heart and soul
For she has truly lived