Monday, August 16, 2021

Fated

A woman in a burka puts her hand up to a car window, looking in at a passenger.

Make no mistake, it is a moral offense

against human dignity, a criminal act

of inhumane disposition to free girls

and women from the shackles of a

religion whose edicts are defined

at the pleasure of men transcribing

sacred verse in their own image of

owners and disposers, judges and juries

in whose interests females are but the

means of leisure pleasure and punitive

measures of violent gratification, mere

vessels to be taken, used and discarded.

Once liberated from the steel grasp of

victimhood the taste of liberty and self

determination becomes etched in hopes

for the future. But when the past becomes

the future the cruelty of descending from

a person to an object once more is beyond

devastating where life's meaning swiftly

evaporates as the fanatic raptors reclaim

their spirit-deadened bleak possessions.

 

 

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