Who are our greatest victims?
Our native women’s rapes?
Over half a century ago,
Their children were of age to
Be abused and killed
Then buried and abandoned.
Abandoned but not forgetting
As parents went unknowing
Of their fates and kept hoping …
Their faith in governments
That oppressed them and forsakes
Their loved one’s destinies
That are only excavated on pleas …
And demands for knowledge
Of their kismet to be able to judge,
Whether to move on, or …
Stay in Limbo’s nescience for
Their needs are trivialized,
While others’ are optimized…
What’s needed to achieve equality
In attaining justice for all humanity
And not only a minority?
In honor of international women’s day against violence. This is only a part of all the violence that occurs against women in the world. Here’s to hoping for an elimination of such practices.
Poetry for Change 