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 too---
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---
Unnerved by
Insanity
They shout from
twisted Mouths---
Hurling Insults
and Epithets---
These Women are
deranged
Unstrung---women
who kill
Their young with
prejudicial Poison---
Cry for these
Hearts
Shattered---battered
beyond Repair
Hearts living
outside the Body---
Like Kahlo's Paintings
Unconnected---broken---closed
to Compassion
Women no
more
These “Vagina
Dentatae”---
The blind Graeae with one Eye only.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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