For Women Everywhere — a poem which came to me as I thought about how in the past FEAR was present .
FEAR
I name you.
I call you out.
Once a focal point
Of my life to
Protect me from harm.
Controlling the best of me.
Making me
Doubt the truth of
My pain.
Taking advantage
Capitalizing on the
Effect of
Little men who do
Not recognize the limits of their
Minds fogged with
Authoritarian smallness
And the detritus of privilege.
For too long
Squatting in my heart
And the cells of
My violated places.
Forced to the safe road.
Turning myself down.
Drowning out the
Honest beat of my heart.
Tiny dribbles of confidence
Hidden by the old man
Ignorant of my beauty
Oblivious to the peace of a
Security he has never
questioned because his
position offers a bully
pulpit from which
All she is objectified
for the allure of her
cells now tarnished by
a traitor’s semen
introduced without
consent.
I call you, fear
And in my calling
I name me as
Courageous and
Daring and no
Longer pinned under
The thumbs of
Tiny men and their
Blinding, idiotic fear of me.
Clear and beautiful
Me reverberates
Filling the vase of
Women everywhere.
For Women Everywhere is an example of when mindful moments come in the form of poetry. Here are are some others I have penned – Poetry
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