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Original Poetry

"The Fate of the Paternal"

"The Humiliation of Oppression"

"A Group of Unformed Women"

"Components of Power"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MEN ARE DOMINANT IN THIS LAND.
OUR HOUSES, THEY ARE BUILT ON SAND.
THE FOUNDATIONS ARE NOT FIRM.
THEY ARE SHAKING.
THE PATRIARCHY IS FEEBLE.
IT IS FRAIL.
IT IS FALLING.
IT IS TIME FOR THE PATERNAL TO CEASE
BEING DOMINANT.

THE PATERNAL HAS THE LIFE OF SOCIETY
BOUND UP.
IT HAS YOU BOUND UP.
IT HAS ME BOUND UP.
LET THE SPIRIT OF THE ALMIGHTY PATERNAL
GO.
WE SHALL THEN BE FREE TO BUILD OUR HOUSES
ANEW.

TO CHERISH THE PATERNAL HAS MEANT DEATH
IN LIFE FOR MANY,
THE DEATH OF LIFE INSIDE.
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA, YOU ARE THE
FAMILY OF THE FUTURE.
YOUR LIFE INSIDE MUST LIVE.
LET THAT OLD PATERNAL SPIRIT GO.
SEEK A BETTER ROAD THAN THE ON SO HEAVILY
TRAVELED BY OUR FATHERS ON THE SHOULDERS
OF OUR MOTHERS
HELP EACH OTHER GROW DIFFERENTLY.
BREAK THE TIES THAT BIND YOU TO THE
COMPETITIVE AND THE DESTRUCTIVE.

WEIGHT OF THE PATERNAL, GET OFF ME AND MY
KIND.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE.
LOOSE OUR SPIRITS AND LET US GO FREE.
OLD PATERNAL, YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WE
WILL NO LONGER BE.
YOU CRAMP OUR STYLE AND KEEP THE RIVER BEDS
OF OUR LIVES FROM BEING CLEAN.

PATERNALISM, YOU HAVE KILLED OUR SOULS.
YOU MUST GO.
OUR RIVER BEDS WE MUST NOW CLEAN OF ALL
THE DIRT,
THE FILTH,
AND THE SLIME YOU HAVE LEFT BEHIND.


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