Vocal Late Charge
Accusatory high-pitched voices
singing in the masculine reign
Humiliated pride getting drenched
by doubtful, male chauvinist disdain
Emotional double octave level of pain,
bitter ... bitter —
Sad and angry
Enough to drive a decent woman insane
Violated women groping for the right testosterone words
that might make reasonable, tone-deaf men hear
Devastated women fondling their own estrogen silence
for too long ...
mute pointed fingers falling on Helen Keller ears
Now spirited voices are making a vocal late charge,
with angst fury and transparent tears
Hoping to arouse in their misogynist tormentors,
female pierced phallic fears
The reasons they all give as to why their voices
waited so late to wail is very troubling
Why in the world did these aggrieved women take so long,
did their moral outrage for justice fall asleep at home?
Where was their public cry in the early aftermath
of those despicable forced degradations?
Charging so late into the public fray, make the women look
vindictive, cruel and shrew
It make the perps appear as though they’re the victims,
and that’s really a crying shame too
Garnering fifteen minutes of fame
is very unbecoming of their lady sung blues
Their stories of abuse still do need to be told;
but legal check the sordid details in early,
before the criminal forensic evidence gets cold
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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