Yellow Overtone Seed/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 25

5 Kan

 

Yellow Overtone Seed

 

This song is for the Women

Who are left bereft

When Children, Brothers, Husbands, Parents die –

Women of the War-torn World –

Some are killed and maimed –

Burned – stoned – raped - be-headed and shot through –

Let us weep for those

Who live with Hearts torn apart

Riven into jagged wounds –

Wet with sacred Water –

Wet with tears of Grief

 

Weep also for those

Harpies of the Patriarchy

Whose Passion becomes Madness

When Logic gives way

And Violence holds sway

These Women are Women no more –

Lost in the Wasteland of a Land undone –

 

A country like an aberrant

Adolescent, thrown between Extremes

Losing all Balance –

These women Shriek –

Unnerved by Insanity

They shout from twisted Mouths –

Hurling Insults and Epithets –

These are Women deranged

Unstrung – women who kill

Their young with prejudicial Poison –

Cry for these Hearts

Shattered - battered beyond Repair

Hearts living outside the Body –

Unconnected - broken - closed to Compassion

These are Women betrayed

Who petrify Men  –

These Vaginae Dentatae* –

The blind Graeae* of one Eye only.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds