The Autumn of a Woman's Life

by Jasmin Cori

Autumn is the season of revelationthe
burgeoning forth
of a richness and depth
previously hidden.

It is the time in a woman's life
when she has come into her own
no longer holding back for fear of offending
or threatening
or dying.

No longer blushing at what she knows
and who she has become,
she displays it freely
in the riotous colors of the hillsides
deep reds and purples, oranges and golds.

The beauty of earlier seasons
is completed now,
rounded out by the breadth and maturity
of a woman who now laughs from her belly
having discovered in her body a great and free land
far beyond what any man can conquer.

The autumn of a woman's life,
like the autumn of nature,
is a moment of brilliance
when we turn our faces to the sun.