Woman

Witches and Satanists we have been named

Over the years we've been murdered and maimed

Mothers and daughters and sisters and wives

All have the power - we gave you your lives

Nothing can ever reverse what's been done

But we'll try with the birth of each daughter and son



(That is one of my first poems,

written as a ridiculously serious child.

Already young to know how to rhyme,

let alone the pipsqueak becomes a feminist.

But oh, well. It has to start somewhere.)