In The Vagina Of Life

Political and Socially Conscious Free Verse Poetry

Black History Challenge

Poem #15

In the vagina of
Life
Something wasn't
Quite right
Her IUD became
An IED
Blowing up the
Stereotypes
Becoming a beacon
For Women's Rights
As Bouncing Betties
Were poised and ready
To defend both the
Inner and outer
Perimeters as
The parameters
Of her thoughts
Needed protecting
Because equality
Kept neglecting
Her and denying
Her access and
That because she
Wore a dress
She was viewed
As weak
So when she decided
To speak
She wasn't meek
Or mild
But bold, beautiful

And loud
She was
Boisterous
Serious and
Nefarious
As she delivered
Her message of
Of Equal Rights
To the crowd
As onlookers and
Naysayers
Feared her words
And what she was
Saying
Displaying her
Defiance
Creating alliances
Nationally
Internationally and
Locally
As she vocally was
Challenging the
Status Quo
As her reputation
Stated to grow
So did the intensity
In her rhetoric
As it began to intensify
She no longer could
Hide what she was
Feeling in the inside 

And that
She had the propensity
To be violent
She could never
Be silent from
Where she stood
She knew that it
Wouldn't do the
Movement
Any good
Using only
Non-violent tactics
The situation is drastic
It's now or never
Either we
Fall apart or
Stand together

See,
She was a
Trailblazer
A
Hell Raiser
Someone history
Could never forget
She was a Shero and
A Suffragette

0200150002021 Nefarious J. Dorsey©

Author's Note

this poem was imbued from the women who fought on the front lines advocating the rights of women-Suffragettes aka Sheroes