!women! !women! !women!

photo by Jose Ignacio Aguirre

I’m beside myself

I don’t know which way to turn

which eye to look from

which hand to hold my head

in weary disgust of all that’s being said

about you, about me, about us, the whole sea

of broken feminine, female, and womanly debris

we’re drowning ourselves and all of humanity

wasting our hearts on the sleeves of our vanity

leading our daughters like lambs to a slaughter

to a life of insanity with no dreams to barter

no hopes to cling to just disrespect and dishonor

what the hell happened to our virtue and our power

when did we decide it was fashionable to deflower

our goodness, our kindness our noble refinement

we are daughters of the goddess, sisters of the earth

we are mothers of all mankind, to life we give birth…

or to life we bring death, if we continue this rampage

of anger and wrath as we strike to lay shame

on the sun and the moon on the men and the rain

when the war that we’re waging is with our own pain

they didn’t do it, dear sisters, there’s no one to blame

we’re all in this together, all One and the same

the Creator is our father, 'human being' is our name

be the love that you seek!  be the love that you claim!

!wake up! !wake up! !wake up!

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