You speak of my manner or better yet/

you speak of my response to them

as that of a REVOLUTIONARY

TELL ME

if someone came to your home

removing you against your will

by chasing you down like they do animals

chain shackle you

dragging you off

while stripping you of your pride

...what would you feel

if someone came to your home

taking from you your child

your wife

your husband

I'll tell you

I feel anger

I feel unforgiving, not hatred

admittingly I do do believe that in the/ final act

when push comes to shove

all their smiles all their attempts to/ be rid

of their ancestral guilt

will be proven false

and they will perform, NATURALLY

TELL ME

.WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL.

Suasuarana @ 1983

your mother

your father

any and or all of your loved ones tell me

what would you feel

if someone came to your home

killed your man

I am a womin of Black, White and Native American descent who prides herself in being a womin-identified womin and poet. I like many of my sisters have been quiet too long and I'm taking this opportunity to begin the wake of my speaking out. I thank the sisters of ONYX who provide us with this vehicle to take this risk. A risk because anytime one takes their secret thoughts and hands them to the world to see, there is always someone who will attempt to invalidate what has been spoken. In sisterhood.

Suasuarana

raped your wife

4

stole your child

...what would you feel

if someone came to your home

said... 'all your customs

your beliefs

all that you are

will not be tolerated

...what would you feel

if someone came to your home

said...you had no right to be...

what would you feel

And having been taught by my elders/ to ask permission to speak

might I ask

would you not revolt?

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