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The Woman Behind the Veil — The...
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What We Have, We Do Not Value, As Oth...
“What We Have, We Do Not Value, As Others Value What They Cannot Have”
The scene is familiar, girls smoking, swearing, counting down the minutes to when they can race from class and get on with what they believe to be the real world, caring little for the lessons they can learn in school, taking for granted the education that they distain.
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Fate and Faiths
Two women, one old: one young
Walk side by side, content
The older, dressed as befits her faith:
The other as befits her age in Ghent.
With “Rock Chick” emblazoned on two crossed guitars,
She may as well have been Belgian and white…
The old woman, maybe her grandmother,
Dressed as she deemed correct and right.
What fate aw [...]
The Woman Behind the Veil
She hides behind it as if ashamed
Of the God given beauty she bears
And at other women without it
She in disdain stares
For men are weak, or so its said
And lead them astray it might
So to thwart sin and stay holy
Women keep their beauty out of sight…
And we in the west, look, don’t understand
Offended by it we feel
Hold the women [...]
A Kind Of Madness
A kind of madness has swept our world:
Replaced our love with fear
A suspicion of another
Based on their voice, or how they appear.
Rooted in the same hatreds
Of race, now under a different guise…
Once more the natives of the colonies
Are people that we despise.
Terrorists or savages
Is all they now can be…
They question is to be [...]
