Jesuitta
Jesuitta, God’s only daughter.
God only had a daughter Jesuitta, which he gave to mankind
to teach us love. She was a good little girl with blond curly hair
and often helped her mother with the washing up and other
household chores. As she grew up and came a shapely young
woman she was coveted by men, who could not grasp her
preaching of unconditional love was not about sex, they began
talking behind her back. Rumours had it she had twelve lovers,
there was talk of orgies with wine a fried fish and fresh bread.
She went to the church demanded to be heard, asked why there
were no women priests, and why the let sleazy merchant selling
overpriced artefacts? The clerics who had enough of this noisy
woman told Pilatus, he first raped her and to his shock realised
that Jesuitta was a virgin; this knowledge haunted him the rest
of his life. Nevertheless his throw her to his Roman Legionnaires
as a usual tart. And the men taunted her: “Is this what you meant
by calling love absolute, they bawled. Their women said nothing.
They put her on the cross and as semen of a thousand soldiers
ran down her legs, she died with forgiveness in her heart.
Copyright © Jan Oskar Hansen | Year Posted 2014
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