Love Poem: Jesuitta
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Written by: Jan Oskar Hansen

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.