A Girl Childs Cry
Originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1
I am a girl child
She said
I was born alive
They want me dead
Unfed
Unread
Older
To an older man
They will have me wed
To make more children
a male heir from
my crumbling marital bed
darkness and more darkness ahead
my race my womanhood
was from time
immemorial bled
male dominated
kept as chattel instead
a holy spirit
languishing in
fungus fed bread
