loving the carnival. this entry was posted over at women's space:
The Other Woman
The ancient lines
Drawn
The ancient dust
Settles the storm
Arriving
On the eve of the revolution
Blood flows red
Into the gutter.
Sites of ancient women’s power
Buried
In the dirt
In the dust
I want this more
Each day I flounder
With the words left unsaid
I am not
As white as you
I am not
As rich as you
Still I bleed red
In darkness
While you shine
With your golden hair
And your beautiful words
And I hate you
But really, deep-down
You are everything
I wish to be
With your confidence
Your grace
I know
You will be a leader
Women will love you
Women will follow you
While I lie
Here in the background
With the other
Lost and buried
Women
Because my hair
Does not shine gold
My voice
Does not sing sweetly
You are everything
That I am not
And I hate you
Even though
I know I shouldn’t
Even though
I want to love you
Even though
Everything in you screams
‘I am a fucked thing
Just like you
I hate you too
Shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shutthefuckup
SHUT THE FUCK UP’
And everything in me
Screams back
Until
We can not hear each other
We can not hear ourselves
So
I ask you
To join me here
On the eve of the revolution
Round the kitchen table
In the garden
Round the tribal fire
In those ancient sacred sites
Believe that there is a
A place
Where women are free
To love ourselves
And each other
That place
Is in my heart
When I reach out a hand
And call you sister
That place is in you
When you reach back
–by Dani/allecto, who is a 26 year old radical feminist lesbian, a descendant of a First Nations people, an activist, vegetarian, child-care worker; a creative, passionate, alive, inspired woman. She believes that Sisterhood is the most powerful force in the Universe.
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