What Can I Say?

 

where are the words

to trash this system

that keeps killers in power 

and children in fear?

the products of women’s bodies

have been manipulated to death

for being born of women

killers have many weapons

shame, hatred of soft skin,

contempt, hierarchy,

this ongoing glory of the mundane

and ridicule of nature’s beauty

how else besides guns and bombs

can we celebrate the work of man 

without woman

if we celebrate all earth’s gifts

we can’t help but feel the power

of the feminine and masculine

as blessings

don’t despair

think hard into your sleepless nights

what is it you don’t know?

where are the words to heal this madness

we cannot escape?

the answer is in the pecking order

those with the highest status

the most wealth the biggest stuff

are not creatures of this earth

they are the oiled  plastic puppets

upholding the ceremony of vanity 

and they live beyond this earth 

with no other home

it is their religion we are told

to lay down our own lives for.