Art by Michael Wheelan
THE STORM OF WOMANHOOD
I was young, so much younger
When I saw the storm.
A strange storm of women,
Of all who'd been born.
They aged in the whirlwind
As they fell to the sea,
Pictures of everything
That woman could be.
I thought I knew all
That could have been known,
But the storm made me see
What I hadn't been shown.
A storm of all women
And all that they knew,
And through my young eyes
Their lives swiftly flew.
The things that I learned
Were too much to say,
But they've kept me awake
And still haunt me today.
I thought I knew women,
And I learned I was wrong.
I'd thought they were weaklings,
And had seen them so strong.
I'd thought only of softness
When I'd looked on their skin,
Yet I learned of their hardships
And the hands of us men.
My father, he told me
To forget what I'd seen,
But shame overcame me
When I saw what I'd been.
Be careful, my children,
On this journey we take.
The storm of the women
Will reveal what you fake.
So see how they flitter,
How they die, how they live
And learn from the women
All the lessons they give.
You can see how they're different,
Yet so strangely the same.
Your mother's among them,
And she's calling my name.
And soon I will join her,
But I just couldn't go
Until you had witnessed
What the storm has to show.
Forget not its power
And revere woman's might.
And always respect them,
And you'll be steered right.
Oreja
THE BRASS POT
Found on ancient scroll,
gnarled and old.
The script was old and type was rare,
but it told the reader to beware
If found any sealed brass jars,
sealed with a seal of a king who could talk to the stars.
For in these jars like these are sealed evil Jinn'
who would not submit to the rule of Lord Solomon.
So with the awesome powers he did seal,
the rebellious ones who did not kneel.
Hence ordered his faithful spirits to put away,
these jars somewhere never to see the light of Day.
But ages later after the mighty king had gone,
only remembered in stories and song.
A poor fisherman discovered one of these,
somewhere floating in the seas of Arabi.
The evil ones inside, ones who cannot die and older than man,
hearing the voices, came on upon a plan.
As the man carried jar, still sealed to the shore, the scroll told
the Ginn clinged their bracelets of silver and gold.
The man hearing this came thoughts of precious treasure within,
And how this wealth would bring such pleasure to his family and him.
The evil ones sniggered with glee,
of freedom for long imprisoned misery
The man with greed, he did start
to break away the old king seal ring mark.
As he called his wife to him, to show the treasures he thought of
so began the escape of the foul spirits to the sky above.
But as the jinn twirled into the air,
they caught the wife by her hair
Pulled away across the sea,
leaving the fisherman in misery.
Pleading with cries to return his wife
the man reached out to get back the star of his life.
Alas the evil ones did not halter
and stole away across the water.
And the writer with words to thee,
Do not open Brass jars found on the sea.
Aussie_Chatter
From the skies the nightmare came
To take his love away
Lost was she, from his embrace
With him she could not stay
All along he always knew
With him she did not belong
For he was real and she was not
Their love was virtually wrong
His happiness, it was short-lived
Their love was but a dream
And in the chambers of his heart
Echoes a nightmare scream
Until he finds someone who's real
Lonely he will remain
Until that time he has no choice
But to endure the pain
Kit
Shall I always be misunderstood,
shall my cries in the darkness always fall upon empty ground.
Shall no one ever hear
What I should Say or
How I should be.
Is this my destiny
to never feel sunlight or
hear the laughters of those around me.
I fear the darkness has come to over take me.
Whom shall I turn for the breath I so desperately need.
Who shall come and breathe into me the life I need so desperately.
The Life I am supposed to lead,
The life of a righteous Woman and Seerer.
I can not face the Life alone
and yet As I cry into the darkness
I only see the darkness staring back at me.
Will anyone hear me or See my destiny also or
Will I always sit in the darkness and Cry.
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