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Monday, July 6, 2009

RUINED

In this world

Where men make the rules
For the women to follow
and the men to break,

In this rainbow

Where white is gold
Brown is good enough
and black don't mean a thing,

In this war

Where small girls are mothers
Young boys are soulless old men
and sons slaughter their mothers

In this life

Where evil is good
and good is evil,

Do you wonder
that
am a ruined woman?

©, N.L., 2009

6 comments:

misscaffeineaddict said...

Beautifully tragic...

Tafsiri Hii said...

Thank you, Miss! Na karibu kwangu!

Bonyo Buogha Anthony said...

heavy.I like the expression; words said like a woman, carved like a woman

openMIC said...

a poem that speaks the held back words of every woman in us

Cee said...

Beautiful...short and precise

Malaika said...

This is beautiful... You write beautifully :-)