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It Has Not Always Been

This piece is my thought alone. If it upsets anyone good, because we women need to fight the internalized Patriarchy which has colonized our thought for thousands of years.

it has not always been

sisters are you clearing now
with tiny tin type tweezers,
the patriarchy that sits bone deep
among our apple flowers.

until we form our own thoughts
unshadowed by Adam’s folly
until in freedom are our choices made
far from misogyny’s rule

the tide will remain rolling in
a thoughtless flow of misbelief
about our very being 
informed by patriarchic lassitude.

it is useless trying to explain,
no matter how fine the language,
the daily life each woman lives
in fear so deep it binds us

to definitions, not our own,
of what it is to be woman.
we have forgotten who we really are
but SHE has not forgotten us.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 11/23/2017 12:08:00 PM
Amazing this is still relevant in our day... well expressed, Patricia.
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Patricia Cresswell
Date: 11/23/2017 1:10:00 PM
It is still relevant today because the original problems not changed. thank you for commenting.
Date: 11/23/2017 11:11:00 AM
Potent ink my sister xomo
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Patricia Cresswell
Date: 11/23/2017 11:54:00 AM
Oh sister I think if even one person stops and thinks for one minute about the origin of their thoughts/beliefs I will be happy. Present company I know is very aware. Thank you!

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