In the beginning
Gay was happy
Before the word
Became the name
Of the most vulnerable
On the earth
Hidden
Silent
Reviled
The repressed
Oppressed voice
Burned like a fire
In the bones
Until it could
No longer be
Contained
Restrained
It cried out
EQUALITY
And gained it
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And having come
To this
Will you not now
Hear another
Silenced voice?
The one to whom
EQUALITY
Of life
May be denied
Will you not now
Stand up and shout
For them?
Or is EQUALITY
Just for those
Who can shout
The loudest
And not for those
Who cannot shout
At all?
Only with great courage can a poet address the helplessness of unborn babies who are systematically killed only for one reason: that they can't cry out, that they can't shout. They can struggle for a few seconds or a few minutes, trying to avoid the vacuum, or in the later stages of growing in the womb for up to two days, but they are powerless. Who will stand up for them? Poets and other writers have the ability to transform the fate of those who are powerless to fight for their lives. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a major factor in revealing and putting an end to the systematic cruelty of the enslavement of African people by plantation owners in the USA. The pen is mightier than the sword. May more poets and other writers use their gift to put an end to the genocide of the unborn.
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