06/28/2022
I could not possibly have said this better.
You have waded in to waters you do not understand.
You will drown here.
This is not your land or your people.
Get.
Your.
Foot.
Off.
Our.
Necks.
It wants to squeeze the life from us
Slowly.
But we are not the island so easily conquered,
Where you can stab your flag in to our soil,
And take dominion there,
We are the raisers of daughters,
You have travelled here,
And think you can write their fate,
and their future,
You who will never carry life,
Hiding behind the varnished oak of a burly desk,
And black billowing robes,
Buoyed by ignorance,
Driven by a hunger to control what you can not begin to comprehend,
Hungry for ruling the Amazing magic that is us,
Thinking we will be forced,
In to a life governed by your beliefs.
We were not made to be coerced,
Or stay quiet.
We are warriors,
Beneath our long beautiful lashes
You will find an enemy stronger than you can imagine …
Built of the courage and determination it takes to be us.
You of so little strength,
You will not take this from us.
Who are you to tell us what life is worth,
We are the growers,
It is in us that life starts and becomes,
We are the nurturers,
We know what is sacred,
We know better than any,
How priceless life is,
We alone bear the responsibility of that life,
We are not free to walk away,
As if life never existed,
We bear it and carry it,
The present and the future,
We do not escape it.
Whatever choices we have to make,
We carry with us forever.
You would see us desperate in that backyard alley,
A deadly dance With the Butchers hanger,
In the darkness of night,
With no voice,
And no vote,
You would see us diminished, and afraid and cowed.
You think you have won,
You have not yet realized,
The whispers that have started,
That will build in to roars,
Together,
United.
One Voice.
Stronger than any army ever to walk the earth.
We will not be defeated,
We are not the tiny voice in the back
Of the room no one can hear.
You have awoken the Dragon.
You have unleashed a beast.
We will not go quietly in to
That good night.
Our lives.
Our Bodies.
Our Choice.
You have no business here.
Trespassers Beware.