How awful, the ghosts of the nun’s biography
are alive in my mind, I cried as I walked down
the street, the songs in my earphones didn’t
enter my head, I’m still crying about Gabrielle
giving up her love to become a nun
Giving up her identity, confessing her every thought,
deed, preference, dream, as sin, doing penance for
every breath she takes, flagellating herself, no com-
panionship or conversation allowed, no comfort
or respite – it’s worse than hell
Worse than a concentration camp, the nun’s life was
devised by sadists and nuns were masochists, rejecting
everything God made as evil and sinful, cutting life and
nature out of them, maiming themselves… maybe I
should stop reading
The true story is so unsettling, I’m totally unbalanced,
can’t concentrate, feeling threatened, knowing so much
pain was not only condoned, but actively inflicted by
religion; one more proof that many ideas of godliness
originate in sick minds…
“The Nun’s Story” – Gabrielle van der Mal
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
I understand what you mean Margaret having read this book....it left me feeling outraged at the treatment she recieved...excellent eloquent write...Fi 10+++