"No matter that we are not related, nor have we met.
Yet we are related by humanity. So, I hereby pronounce you all my Sister Girls!"
Sister Girls, sometimes the world seems against us. So many of us feeling abused, mistreated, disrespected, taken for granted, used as a pawn in a man's self-centered game for love and attention. Many of us having to work two or three times harder than a man just to prove ourselves in the work place etc. etc.. Sometimes a high level of multi-tasking is put on us so regularly that it is not recognized when we are wearing down and need attending to, ourselves!
I wrote the following poem back in 2002 but it still stands strong. I wrote it while watching a television show on women in other parts of the world, and how they were being used, abused and thrown away without justice being done on their behalf. In many cases, justice is not held high EVEN for the women in our own country, the great United States of America! We need to rally, even within ourselves and against the injustices against women. Standing up for yourself or for another can and will continue to make a difference. Though it may feel like it, you are not alone. There have been and will continue to be women, ordinary women making extraordinary changes for you, me, our daughters and the way that we live.
"INSPIRATION STATION"
STAND UP WOMEN, BE COUNTED
Poem by yours truly, Meetta (Me)
Laughing out loud, why can't we?
Are our captors afraid that our laughter of joy will somehow bring down the walls of their abusive terror causing them to crumble, just like the trumpets of Jericho?
YES! It is possible!
STAND UP WOMEN, BE COUNTED!
Beautifying ourselves, putting on makeup and dressing up to make ourselves feel good intimidates them.
WHY?
Are they afraid we will be empowered by discovering our own beauty?
Thus, using it as a strength to motivate ourselves to move from their insecure, abusive ways?
YES! It is possible!
STAND UP WOMEN, BE COUNTED!
WHAT?
WE cannot go to school educating ourselves, furthering our dreams and goals in becoming
better persons and changing destinies?
WHO ARE THEY to dictate THAT TO US?
AND WHY?
Are they afraid that we will someday outrank them and surpass them in power?
YES, it is possible!
Stand up women, be counted!
They beat us and use us as sex slaves, little girls 8 & 9.
Being raped can scar a body and a mind.
Then they throw them away.
Like their bodies, their spirits break.
Dust to dust, back they go away.
Yet, this is being done to us regularly, time after time!
WHY?
The doomed and evil, taking advantage of low economic tides.
Are they afraid that we may not fear them,
leaving them broke and feeling un-empowered?
YES, it is possible!
Stand up women, be counted!
Those that are doing this to us,
are weak minded, cowardly individuals who can be defeated.
Women,
We are ALSO empowered by the Love, Grace and Mercy of God!
The Great "I AM".
The creator of Heaven, Earth.
He also planned and created you, me, the trees and everything else in it!
He took GREAT care in creating us, the woman.
Eve, the mother of humanity,
was a strong willed, powerful, beguiling force.
She had power even over Adam, the first of man, whom God trusted!
She gave birth to nations!
She was a very rare creature indeed, the first of her kind.
Women...
You are the daughters of Eve.
And the fruit don't fall from the tree!
Yes! You have inherited her traits.
She had a flaw, but her strengths were not depleted.
So, daughters of Eve...
Stand up!
Stand up women and be counted!
By God's Grace, Mercy and Love...
We ARE NOT meant to be abused, mutilated, or controlled by ANYONE!!
STOP...
giving your power away!!
Stand up women, be counted!
WE MUST DO THIS!
We MUST THINK about the legacy
we are leaving behind for little girls AND the little boys that are watching us.
WE HAVE THE STRENGTH INSIDE OF US.
If we call on it, it will grow more and more!
STAND UP!
Stand up women!
Stand up and be counted!
Meetta
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