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Contained within the pen
Is the future and the past The words declared Imagined in ink Ascribed to society There is a power Within the pen One’s thoughts Transformed into words. Define the sexes Define the races Define us. For centuries Men controlled the pen Prescribed our roles Restricted our bodies Restrained our minds. Understanding this We now know, She who controls the pen Controls the power. What will you write? Two videos caught my attention today. The first was a video from HONY in which a mystic discusses the “control of the pen”, and second was a clip of Pat Robertson discussing the need to dismiss Saudi murder concerns because we’ve got a 190 billion dollar military arms deal with them. It was another realization that this “pro-life” religious leader actually cares less about lives and more about money. It’s time we give everyone a pen—let us define our own lives, roles, bodies in the ink of identity. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/videos/2052973148110108/ https://crooksandliars.com/2018/10/pat-robertson-shrugs-saudi-murder-cites
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Poetry by: AsherahAlthough she was selectively edited out of the Bible two thousand years ago, she raises her voice for women today in hopes of a better tomorrow, as she makes waves of change, one poem at a time. Archives
May 2020
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