Thursday, February 9, 2017

Nevertheless, She Persisted


She was warned.
She was given an explanation.
Nevertheless, she Persisted.




Just a vision
transgressing through life
the burdens hers and hers alone
the weight of expectations
love
waiting beyond the horizon
pure and simple
captured and left to wither
undermined, underestimated, lonely and cold.


My life and my work is the constant struggles of the heroine
to find the ancient woman's memory
that grows stronger in her breast and in her soul as she
battles the unrelenting demands of man
to cower and submit all that she has, all that she is
to his authority, to his demands.  It seems that this battle of women
is still breathing down her neck.

barb


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