Woman
A sequence by Anastasia Velounias
Woman
Caged like a bird-
Oh Maya, it is still so blurred
We have the racism, fascism,
Communism, cynicism, criticism,
The barbarism, elitism,
The narcissism and the Darwinism
Oh Maya, your lyricism
Still sings with humanism,
Oh Maya, sing like a caged bird once more,
Will you please?
Woman
There is beauty in my pain,
There are scars left to heal
But the scope of happiness widened
And the meaning of life ripened.
Woman
I live to die,
You will live to see,
My no is not a yes,
Your ignorance is not in jest.
Woman
This country breeds men as dogs,
Barking and barking,
Waiting for their next attack.
But domestic abuse is expected, don’t you see?
This country breeds men as dogs,
It breeds women as subservient wrongs,
Living how we ought to be
Don’t you see?
Woman
I am a punching bag
But I do not bleed
And I do not succeed
As a woman who is
a punching bag
who only bleeds
and cries in disbelief
At women so cruel,
To let this be.
Woman
Dance to my tune,
I will make you forever weep and swoon.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin now resides at your jest,
‘Tis clear’ the women use to cry at their very best.
Oh- how little did they know,
Oh- when all we do is die slow.
Sing with me and dance to my flute,
I will make you flutter, you dirty brute.
Woman
I am a prisoner
Chained to your feet
I am your listener
But pray for me- give me fleet.
I am a pet
On a tightened leash
I am in your debt
But pray for me-let me unleash.
I am your wife
Bound for life
Death do us part
Because of a bleeding heart.
Woman
Feel empowered they said
When those people have bled
The double-edged sword they said
When those people were hanging on by a thread
Our time will come they said
When those people said this infection has yet to spread
What can they do they said
Either get wed or dead.
Woman
Hustling like a fraud
Waiting for my big applaud
Cooking up a storm
Receiving all the scorn
Nursing like Nightingale
Reading a bedtime story tale
Cleaning all the crevices
Scrapes, cuts and all the blemishes
Dressing up in couture
Acting so very demure
Hustling like a fraud
Waiting for my big applaud.