Necessity - Freedom

A Poem by redzone

..finding her humanity..

Necessity - Freedom

Her life was enslaved,

it was bleached

blended and folded like old clothes.

Along with other women,

she was resigned to the whims of tedious,

everyday chores

mocking a woman's potential and intelligence.

And then she ran;

ran from the hands that groped

and eyes that stared;

ran from the fists that flailed at her,

ran from the numbing waves of normal life.

She ran looking for independence

and a more purposeful life.

She ran til she found

the all-the-way, liberating revolution and

the goal of emancipating all of humanity.

She also found

her own humane-ness.

--redzone 11/24/13

© 2013 redzone

Author's Note

this poem is written in honor of the historic Model Peking Opera, "The Red Detachment of Women". Created when China was revolutionary, during the Cultural Revolution.

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Pryde Foltz

Very intelligent piece, redone. Wonderful in word choice and line segmentation and the theme was coherent and gripping. Typo call out of 'gropped'. I think it is just one p.