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Equality (Free verse) by sarah
i need your love like the earth needs water
i knead your love like a kitten kneads her mother
i need your love like a thought strives to be original
yet continues to recycle and reprocess the historical
life in centripetal forces of course will always bring you back around
the world has lifted this little girl up and then it consistently throws
her back down
still
you know that i always come back around
i am a warrior of womanhood gone wrong, then dusted off to sing a song
this melody is a memory of older and odder ladies of the language of men
i will carry on crusades that are much older than the blood in my veins
i have collected the selective subconscious of my elders in a hearst
that i have outlayed
i am a witch who has come to raise their distant voices which were
thought to be decayed
i carry on torches that burned near so far as i can see beyond the sun
and time and without restraint to "days"
they are the voices of empathy
they are the voices of truth
they are the voices of sharing
they are the voices of youth
within each search of my ancestral links i can see nothing
yet when i look around i see that everyone is linked to me
there is no escape you see?
you equals me equals equality.
right?
so what's with this double tongued entendre that i have been taught to
embrace?
equality in reality is beginning to mean "i'm better than you" when you
look in its face
the folks who preach this far too frequently have never even looked up
the meaning
equality is the condition of being treated equally
let's disregard what you think of my history
i fear this will never happen
yet i work towards the peaceful ways of tolerance
i believe that when we are finally free
you will embrace me regardlessly
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