WOMEN PAID

Written for WILDE poetry seminar and festival 2006. Women have been exposed to some of the worst atrocities meted out to humanity.

 Women Paid

Yes. Mother earth

We the women of the earth

Want you to bring to the attention

Of the world and,

Let them know that we paid.

Pay every day a child is created

Paid with the release of pure

Energy of love for its father,

 Or with the cry of hate and rage

 At the unwanted, wanton abuse

Of our bodies from men who

Assault them without our consent.

We release in your atmosphere

 A blessing of love or a curse of hate

 That keeps rumbling their energies

Down the annals of time that keep

Reproducing lovers or murders.

 Let the world know that we paid

When the child we have created seek to rip

Our bodies asunder in a bid to escape us.

While our cries echo in the universe

 Liberating energies of pain, we paid

We pay with smiles and sighs of joy

At the first cry of a triumphant entry

Of our sons and daughters into

A strange and unknown, world

Yes we paid you, by releasing to you

Love and joy.

Paid you with our flesh and blood

In your sewers,

In your bowels,

Creating soil,

That nourishes food,

Feeding all nations,

Continually paying,

 In the price of our blood and tears

Month after month

Year upon year

Mother earth,

 Please!!!!

Let the world know

We women paid!

 Soy Criada