Admins please note.
Posted this an hour back. Technically yesterday according to India time. Reposting as weirdly my post has disappeared. Not sunk to the bottom because there aren't that many new comments on other pieces. Just gone without a trace. I scrolled way down to make sure. And I commented on Rekha and Lee challenge pieces one hour ago, they're not there as well. Puzzling fb glitches.
So here goes...
Your tried and tested methods of
Oppression
Are subtle suggestions
That made my heart falter
And I lost confidence
And I lost love
The power eluded
Slowly I lost myself.
Even then
My Inner self was not lost
I was not yet your conquest
For I was unwary,
Unconscious of being the prey.
When I ceded my Independence
It was neither announced
Nor promoted
Relief was not sought
In ignorance of my state.
I wore the handcuffs of dependence
Tight broadband cuffs that
Smartly announced my every move
Stripped of mystery
I was not a woman
But a seductive blip
In your global positioning system.
I was unaware.
It was unacceptable.
The day I found our status quo
and discovered
I could never change it.
Then the shackles of iron
Rusted red rimmed
Upon my wrists
bloating my flesh
Into rude
Bracelets.
Independence,
Cannot flourish
In timorous wasteland
Where hearts wither
Love cannot nourish
Or promote succour or relief
When courage dithers.
Bound by invisible
Ley lines
Traced in quicksand
I pay homage to your desecration
Daily.
May the words
Be monuments
That trace the exact pattern
of my degradation
Tide and time
Will track you down
always.
When satellites sleep
God's dreaming eye
Opens.
Be seen.
For what you are.
(c) Amrita Valan 2016
What's going on tonight? Half an hour after reposting my challenge piece, I see that the old one has popped right back up. Yet it wasn't there and I know coz i scrolled for donkeys years. Admins this is too weird.
David Hall Judith Jp Parsons Cynthia Ferguson-Morris Hana Shishiny
Now I'm confused.
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