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
