A Nun is a Woman

A nun is a woman


Who believes in the Absolute


And arises in search of it,


Laughing at all who


Speak of the impossibility of it,




For a woman, who is a nun,


Knows that the impossible


Becomes the possible in a matter of seconds,


At the bidding of her Beloved






A nun is a woman who has become mad,


Totally, irrevocably mad!


For she has accepted


The standard of God’s wisdom

Which is in truth folly to man.






A nun is a woman


Hanging on the other


Side of His cross


Knowing that it becomes


His marriage bed with her


The moment she asks

“To be lifted up” with Him.






A nun is a woman


Of the water and the towel


Constantly kneeling before


Mankind to wash its

Tired feet.






A nun is a woman


In love with God – hence with all humanity

Always…constantly…totally!






A nun is a prayer -


Everlastingly lifting her arms to God

For those who don’t.




A nun is a woman


Who fasts


Knowing well how fast fast reaches

The heart of God!






A nun is a woman


Wrapped in the
Powerty of God,


The mantle of

His surrender, His emptying!






A nun is a woman


Who exists


To show that God exists too.