Category: Poetry

women hold the answers
to the questions never asked them
by the men who would oppress them
to appease the greatest evil
manifested by men’s ego
solely based on the inference
of imagined insignificance
for their lacking of the function
that creates life as we know it
on this point of indignation
every drop of blood and tear shed
from the dawning of our species
men have wrought without contrition
call it not human condition
but the state of male affliction
disinclined to ever listen
to the voice of gentle wisdom
speaking words of unheard visions
mother earth and all her sisters
have expressed throughout the ages
but as men are wont to display
disregarding what women say
we are left to devolution
e’er denying the solution
held by each and every woman
’tis a tragedy unwritten
lo, the wrath of insecure men
ushers all into extinction

writhing pit
of wretched wallow
all-consuming ache
wracks my will
as arctic waters take me

fruit forbidden
from the tree
that bears the cure
for this disease
sits treasonously low
on lurid branches

calling from the distant skies
a song belying known convention
vies for my attention
as i fall mute

tunneling through drudge
to reach the bottom
breaking through the barrel
let me not again
witness the sun

so many
seem so interested
in that which they imagine
would submit
to their control

well

please know
i do not
say this lightly

but

perhaps

you should
control yourself

by letting others go

now
is not the time
for stories

time have yet
to make anew

life depends
upon its glory

we must live
to see it through

take no single breath
for granted

walk the line
into the fire

tend the seeds
whence love had planted

lest exile
begets expire