It takes years for the slights and prejudice to forge
a people of deepening hatred for their oppressors,
and they bite back burning away the years that cast
cynical doubt on their cruel power hungry purposes.
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It was like blowing oxygen through molten pig iron,
lowering the carbon content to make it stronger and
enabling a revolutionary force to grow a steel shell
that would withstand, wait and harden their hearts.
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They watched as kin were blasted in their homes,
and by purposely poisoning people’s perception,
turned the willingness and casting of a new country
into fractured fragments of flawed steel overheated.
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Piled into trucks, prowling the streets they marched,
greeted by friends who have longed for power, still
they dance and wave their mighty machines of war,
and violate the women like vile cowards afraid of
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their beauty and see the female as corrupting
and themselves unable to control their own urges,
denying the gift of God who gave love, equality
and joy, instead of the male dominance that will
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take and destroy the lives of girls to slake their
own lust, and coerce them into sexual slavery, and
in fear, wrestle daily for justice while chained to an
evil avalanche of masculine perpetrated misogyny.
