Featured Poem:
16 days
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Featured Poem:
16 days
Sixteen days,
to fight these ways,
teach them crime never pays,
else we deal with these stains,
marks of generations of pains,
decades of drought and no rains,
for the cries of battered women curse these skies,
dark clouds gather and never release,
stuck with fruitless soils,
we all go hungry,
the woman’s cries has made earth angry,
now we have sixteen days,
to do away with these ways,
teach men that abuse never pays,
there is no glory if their hands have blood stains,
the land bears nothing because of these pains,
decades of drought and no rains,
for mothers made mourners curse these skies,
dark clouds gather and never release,
stuck with fruitless soils,
we all go hungry,
the woman’s cries has made earth angry,
sixteen days,
in three hundred and sixty five days,
to fight a battle with words and hope it pays,
sixteen days,
to build a man in the boy we raise,
to shower the respectful man with praise,
for the war is through words,
lessons learnt and spoken,
mending hearts once broken,
restoring the dignity once taken
Sixteen days,
to fight these ways,
teach them crime never pays,
else we deal with these stains,
marks of generations of pains,
decades of drought and no rains,
for the cries of battered women curse these skies,
dark clouds gather and never release,
stuck with fruitless soils,
we all go hungry,
the woman’s cries has made earth angry,
now we have sixteen days,
to do away with these ways,
teach men that abuse never pays,
there is no glory if their hands have blood stains,
the land bears nothing because of these pains,
decades of drought and no rains,
for mothers made mourners curse these skies,
dark clouds gather and never release,
stuck with fruitless soils,
we all go hungry,
the woman’s cries has made earth angry,
sixteen days,
in three hundred and sixty five days,
to fight a battle with words and hope it pays,
sixteen days,
to build a man in the boy we raise,
to shower the respectful man with praise,
for the war is through words,
lessons learnt and spoken,
mending hearts once broken,
restoring the dignity once taken
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Thats My Anita Tau
She’s an amazing artist, I’m so happy that platforms like this one put her out there. Keep shining love.
“there is no glory if their hands have blood stains,” Wow!
Preach Sister!