It is impossible to be a woman, it is impossible to be a woman: a mantra I chant to myself at some point almost every day. This mantra is usually comforting, in a weird way, because it reminds me I didn’t make this suffocating, cruel, abusive system we live in, nor am I alone in it.
Not today, though. Not with an illegitimate supreme court. Not with sanctimonious zealots who believe my religion doesn’t count but theirs does. Not with minority rule that wants to force us into cages. Maybe they think if they just keep saying no, we’ll be dulled into submission.
We won’t.
Betty Parris Hears Only No, by Ginny Lowe Connors
(daughter ef the R.everend Parris)
No running no dancing no wasting of time
no power no nonsense opinions or rage
all of our stitches must march a straight line
no running no dancing no wasting of time
stubbornness ugly defiance a crime
I dream I’ve been captured forced into a cage
no running no dancing no wasting of time
no power no nonsense opinions or rage
Please click here for Ginny Lowe Connors’ website.
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Alison McGhee 
Amen, sister.
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Powerful. A return to dark times. Calamity.
Thanks for your words attached to the poem.
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Calamity is the word for it, Jinx. xo
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xoxo
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*Beloved Alison McGhee
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There feels like despair in this sharing. I thought about what to say.
*There is nothing I can say to change the situation. I do know that the
world is seriously misguided, and has been for centuries. We need a more
illuminated curriculum everywhere. One that puts our Soul at the fore.
That is in the process of awakening. Predictions are that by 2025, it
should be everywhere.
In love, with love, for love
Shamla of Shamballa
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Dear Shamla, you are so lovely and so thoughtful and you bring a deep optimism to everything you say. I appreciate that more than you know. XO
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I feel frustration and pent up rage and it is sad. A powerful poem it is that can seemingly simply convey such emotions.
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I agree, Larry, about both the poem and the emotions. xo
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