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My Fallen Sisters
(poem in the style of an elegy)

Maricelle Jeannette

My sorrow goes out tonight
to all my fallen sisters.
Women, girls, and babies
whose lives have been cut short
by the ignorance, hatred, and fear
of a patriarchal world.

Young brides beaten to a pulp
by grooms which swore to cherish.
Fear, not love, reigns in their homes,
living hells in which they perish.

Thrown out with the garbage
widowed women, beautiful crones.
Gleaning for scraps of food through fields
sentenced to starve for being too old.

Strong, bright women raped and killed
while on campus seeking higher education.
Their lives, their light, put out too soon
on a quest to rise above social oppression.

And, oh, my outraged heart breaks apart
for the babies defiled while still in cradles
by demons who dare call themselves men.
Bodies so small, to ask for help were not able.

They say that it is “a man’s world”
but blame women for their downfall.
But from a mother they all were born
and to The Mother they all return.

So there never will be peace on earth
and goodwill to all men
until all my fallen sisters
get their overdue amends.



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