Uteri Unite Us
you lust for my
potential vessel
bowl in which to plant
vase of the wilted
contents that I wish emptied
you long to quench
an immense thirst
for what has always been
for what will always be
Mine
you want to enter the hollow cave
stake it out
build a democratic infrastructure
in which I have no vote
I unfold the layers of time
that covers my arrow, my flint
the handprints that pigment my walls
remain unfettered
there is a tomb with a queen who rises
a sheath filled with thousands of swords at the ready
there are women unrestrained by myth
who are not shamed by martyrs
I walk with them
for the right to bleed or birth
for the egg to latch on
or drop free
like a bomb
exploding in catacombs
of grief or relief
freeing woman
who stands alone
to receive
as she chooses
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