<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527805" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hers Was</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hers was a life of compliance. <br>Fulfilment of another's wishes, <br>observance of another's needs, <br>conformity to the rules set down <br>in stone. She was the rubber of <br>beads through fingers, touched <br>by thumbs; the beads of the rosary <br>would be sealed by prayers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was the self denier, who put <br>herself last, one who sacrificed <br>pleasures for a promised salvation, <br>whose menstruations were reminders <br>of babies that would never be, <br>children which would never be hers, <br>dugs that would never be sucked. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She carried the cross through cloisters, <br>sandaled feet trod the paved paths, <br>heard birdsong, saw butterflies in flight, <br>moths at night in the candle's flame, <br>she hidden away, unknown, no fame <br>with a saint's name. And each morning <br>rising with the bell, kissed by the early <br>dawn, touched by the chill of early frost, <br>she lived and moved, all for love of Christ.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527805" data-title="Hers Was de Terry Collett" data-description="Hers was a life of compliance. Fulfilment of another's wishes, observance of another's needs, conformity to the rules set down in stone. She was the rubber of beads through fingers, touched by thumbs; the beads of the rosary would be sealed..."></div> </div> </div>

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