5
Kan
Yellow Overtone
Seed
Sing this song
for Women
Who are left
bereft---
When Children,
Brothers, Husbands, Parents die---
Women of the
War-torn World---
Killed and maimed---
Burned---stoned---raped---beheaded
and shot through---
Let us weep for
those
Who live
half-lives---Hearts torn up---
Riven into jagged Wounds---
Wet with sacred
Water---
Wet with tears of
Grief
Weep also for
those
Patriarchal Harpies
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---
This country like
an aberrant
Adolescent,
thrown between Extremes---
Losing all
Balance
These women Shriek---
Inured to Insanity
They shout from
twisted Mouths---
Hurling Insults
and Epithets---
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
Human no
more
These “Vagina
Dentatae”---
The blind Graeae like Wotan
With
one Eye only.
©Kleomichele Leeds, Ph. D. (c)
