Violation

Woman is virgin, innocence,

until the fact of rape, the threat of rape,

shatters her maidenhood.

Though she be infant, baby girl,

though she be 'mother of 100 sons,'

or grandmother,

crooning in what cocoon of false security,

at that moment of clarity,

horrified, disgusted by ingratitude,

pitying brokenness:

she becomes Crone, a Fury

for her sisters, for herself.

She becomes a force of outrage,

gathering in collective power,

that will rise up

with the implacable love

that protects all children,

that protects the future.

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I Am Kundalini,

Shakti, Kali, Cunta.

your Earth, your Mother, All-Giver.

I Am the outrage confronting any rape,

any disrespect!

Within My creative womb

(My crucible of becoming)

now unite, implacably

reborn as purest energy,

redress.

Together we shall be

Justess!

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018