I
Each day I become a victim
Each day I am traumatized
I gave birth to humanity
Yet I am forced!
I raised humanity
Yet I am threatened!
Men think I am pretty
Then why am I there slave?
They say they love us
But why do they rape?
Are we Pawpaw’s?
Of which everyone eats the outer flesh!
and the inner seeds are thrown away!
Failing to realize that it is the inner seed which gives rise to a tree of pawpaw
Are we old clothes?
Which people discard after they get new ones!
And never look back at them!
Failing to realize that once it was this clothe which covered them
Each day I become a victim
Each day I am traumatized
(Written from a perspective of an ordinary South Pacific Island woman)
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