Human (?)

Inspired by Christine Anne Shaw's poem 'Condemned'. Ramblings of a raging mind.

I was made

to serve, quiet and silent,

a living body ripped

of its tongue

where certain hellhounds

breathe down the necks

of suppressed females,

petrified, but still

unwillingly willing to please

the so-called men-gods.

I was born 

in a world where opinions 

and thoughts are stacked 

pile upon pile, and while

my inner voices tries to 

stretch itself awake sometimes,

only to be dragged back 

into a drunken stupor,

but not before I see

salivating mouths, leering 

...closing in upon me...

I was made human,

perhaps...

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is the most brilliant thing I've read of yours so far! This is an amazing portrait of this kind of situation . . . even if not dictated by culture at large, here in the USA, there are plenty of males dominating females on a freelance basis. What makes your writing so intense is that you do NOT rant & rave . . . you express yourself in a quietly smoldering way, which would match exactly how such a woman might feel . . . never quite letting it all out, always restrained, incapable of letting go into a full-bore rant. This is exquisite becuz of that tension & contrast between restraint & expression (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Dr. YumnaKay]

Living in a male-dominant society, I get infuriated a lot when I see women actually submitting to their husbands or fathers whether they like it or not. And it always saddens me when I see that those males are, at least in the culture I live in, even encouraged to do so by their mothers. So Idk who is to be blamed for this kind of attitude but it would take a long time to change that mindset. ..

I'm glad you appreciate, BG. I think I'm better at feminist writes than writing sappy, romantic s**t hahah :P
Thank you so much :))

[barleygirl]

Sometimes I write something whimsical exactly becuz it seems like I've been writing a string of opinion pieces! *wink! wink!*

[Beccy]

It's a kind of throwback cultural brainwashing, and the pity of it is, (aside from the suffering, mostly in silence, many endure) is how much better our world would be without such prehistoric thinking. I abhor bullies of any persuasion; and that simply put, is the only label their kind deserve. That and a taste of their own medicine; which methinks would soon change such behaviour.

This is well said and all the more powerful for not being just an angry rant.

Beccy.

[Jibey]

Telling and painfully real... Sometimes we cannot escape the suffocation of circumstance.. except, perhaps, through our words...

[Dr. YumnaKay]

Thanks so much for your words here, Jibey. Appreciated.