Tag: misogyny
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Forgiveness Costs
The author of forgiveness saw this blue planet as so, loving the troubled earth with paid for patience though, speaking through the earthquakes, fires and lightnings, was steadfast through shifting of huge teutonic plates breathed living spirit released the power of oxygen, and steadfastly refused to give up on humans hates. —- Millenia passed, filling…
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Afghanistan,
Times past, I was bound by the rules, kept in the home, kept busy with chores, told who to marry, ordered, commanded and kept from life by marginalising laws. ——- I had a taste of life where I could be me, I travelled, I studied, I worked with zeal, I felt the sun on my…
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Misogyny
Times past, I was bound by the rules, kept in the home, kept busy with chores, told who to marry, ordered, commanded and kept from life by marginalising laws. — I had a taste of life where I could be me, I travelled, I studied, I worked with zeal, I felt the sun on my…
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Why Forgive?
I studied the news and the weather forecast and felt my heart hurt with the pain and loss, sought to make a prayer that thought of hope and found it hollow, echoing in a vacuum. —– I looked in the bible for words to help me and faltered over the words ‘love your enemy’, and…
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A Girl Child’s life
Tiny hands beat the air as she was pushed from her mother’s body and gasped for breath emitting a sharp healthy cry of hope, fear, pain and hunger. A crumpled, dimpled face blinked at the light. So she started her long interminable fight for safety, fair treatment, to thrive, to shine as that light in…
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The Pain of Womanhood
What has brought women so low that they feed on a male’s unsubstantiated flow and subverted praise.