The woman’s body, tuned into the natural rhythms, it ebbs and flows and changes with its own seasons. Each part of it ages, just like the leaves from spring to autumn to winter and beyond.
And like those leaves the woman’s skin becomes so very delicate, even more tender to the touch – where moisture is hard to replenish with out the scattering showers of rain
A woman’s skin turns thinner with its winter season, changing its material form to include beautiful lines like waves on the shore. Her temples her cheeks and her eye lids become like the artists pencil marks before a great work of art.
And in that sacred place, where once her babes were born, the softening of that tissue, the most 
delicate petals of the sacred rose that begin its fall to ground, with each fall remembering a time of great passion and weeps a little more.
Gentle, so gentle we must honor her, allowing only the sweetest of kisses and the tenderest of touches from one who loves deeply and understands this precious time….
And if given permission fully, that one will be taken to a palace worth remembering, for if she allows him in, he surely is a king – for no woman will allow a mere prince to dine at this table!
A woman’s body must change we know, so she is aware of that wisdom bestowed upon her and the bleeding is done, for now as she knows herself so much deeper, she knows she is holding the power, the power that only the winter can bring
Wise crone, you show us the ways of that inner world. Not through the sweet flirtations of the maiden but of her ripened truth and ancient tree of knowledge
Maybe few will understand, no matter how they try
And for sure there are those who would turn back time
Still she will come no matter the desire, for no one can turn her face
She is knocking at the door!
Her holy union now means more than any desire,
no need for erotic pleasure to sharpen her eye, that eye is sharper than any eagles, for she has come beyond that circle of soaring and has alighted to greater heights,
for now it is she who sees the world
She with the inner smile, sings to the depth of her soul
Deeply touching to read this beautiful poem in prose. Such tender words for an aging woman….helps me to see beyond, where there are acceptance and fulfillment. Thank you, Caroline, for this! Katerina
Thank you for sharing that Katerina, glad it was helpful to you. much love Caroline
I was deeply touched, with tears welling up of this writing, Caroline. As an post menopausal woman and feeling the changing of skin and hair to a delicacy and coming to honouring myself as a sacred rose. it encouraged me to read this to my husband as it spoke to what I have not found the words. With much appreciation and Thank-you. Susan
I am touched too by your words dear Susan, thank you for sharing that <3 Caroline