Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Our Mother



Her name a curse dropped quick from their lips.
Rising from blood[ dripped down ]from darkened fingertips.
Eyes that flashed a thousand stars.
The bloodiest, bloodiest, damned of them all.

She was me.
She was my sister, my mother. 
She was everyone and no one.

Burned like ash and rising from flames.
The witch the world could not shame.
We are one. And none.
Bloody and broken.
Billions of souls and one terrible truth.

This is the woman who rose from the mud.
The woman who scraped and fought for her blood.
We are all her and she is us.
Together we stand, bathed in her love.

This Eve. This Lilith. This Mother of All. She is our monster. Our goddess. Our all.

And with her we stand.
As sisters. As women.

She is our mother, our sister.
Barren or not.
She is our sister, our mother.
Regardless of birth.

She is our sister, our mother—because she says she is.

And our mother, our mother, bloody and tall, she watches and watches.
And watches us all.







 - AKA



Tuesday, January 10, 2017

We Rise

A thousand small cruelties
A thousand thorns in our skin
Like arrows in a giant’s hide
Bleeding sluggish, dragging

Painful pricks

Burning

A thousand small cruelties
A thousand words over time
Breaking and beating
Stealing our breath

Slowing

Weighing

A thousand small cruelties
A thousand and one
It’s just not done

And still

And still

We rise

- Ash K. Alexander