A Song in Seven Stanzas: for our Grand-Daughters
1. Tradition and the remembrance of things past, Are a re-discovered country Of things we struggle against; Where as pygmy women we stand tall among the Bantu And name ourselves Babongo. We stand here, compassionate witnesses, To witches who are just mothers, to mothers who are just loyal, To those who wrestle snakes to feed […]
Let’s Light Another Candle
For the fourteen women, and the fourteen x fourteen millions more …Let’s light a candle Let’s light another candle For old women, rejected wives, and all women Powerless and silenced, Whose children have forgotten the ones who gave them birth Let’s light a candle Let’s light another candle, For the childless wives, violated […]