what is that moment like
the moment before the fall
is there sound
is there realization
and if there is
how do you continue to stand
how do you continue to breathe
knowing that the breaths you have left
can be counted on your two hands
This world that we live in is a beautiful place, with the seediest of underbellies. In all our wisdom, and with all our technology and such not, we create heaven, but we also create hell. I do not know what it is like to live everyday in fear of your life, but millions of women in this world live fear everyday. I recently had coffee with a woman who, without even knowing, pulled away veils that I had let fall over my eyes. The veil that women are treated as equal citizens, the veil that women have control over their bodies, the veil that women have a right to their children... The list goes on. As I sit here, with a copy of Ms. Magazine to my right, and a facebook post in front of my about the brutal killing of a mother of two, I cannot begin to express how I feel. This blog, I realize, is a feeble attempt to deal with those emotions, and I apologize in advance if it doesn't make sense. But to see this on my computer screen, has just thrown me for a loop:
Natasha T. Kerns: To all my FB friends. Wanted to let you all knw if they find my body dead somewhere my HUSBAND WILLIE MARVIN WILLIAMS is responsible!! He want leave me alone!
And that was the last communication. The last words shared before she was shot and killed. And I'm left with the question, who created this reality? I just don't understand. And where do we, as women, as people, as a world community, go from here?
My thoughts and prayers go out to this family and my good friend Jerry. A candle burns on my altar for her and for so many others who find themselves in dark places today.
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