The Petrified Goddesses

The Petrified Goddesses of Stone

Some goddesses are carved out once
and now petrified into stone,
their organic, vibrant life gone,
they stand into the view of all,
without substance,
A fate worse than being burnt
to ashes.
The ashes are carried away by the gentle wind when it comes.
The goddesses in stone cannot die such a complete death.
Monuments for the cruelest mockery of time,
they are condemned to die a frozen death.
The worshipers of idols do not know
that the petrified goddess was once a woman of flesh and blood,
of this earth you inhabit now.
Do not sing hymns for the goddesses in stone; they have neither the ears nor the eyes to derive comfort from the soulless pageantry of yours.
Watch the goddess closely and you will see,
there is a deep mark of a deep gash she carries on her throat, a mark of a fatal blow,
that the maker did not envision there when he intended to make beauty out of the stone.