Poems Woman Scream 2013 Columbia, South Carolina USA

Woman Scream 2013 celebrated by HeTePu Productions , coordinated by Sufia Amenwahsu











Joy to Pain

Joyce Rose Harris

…for Mary Woodson White

Sliding in from the rain, behind

your friends it was easy they’re use

to me

being around. Passing libations

with laughter flowing freely; finally

you see me. No joy only pain

across your beautiful brown face.

One by one people leave; now only

you and me. I wait for an embrace

but a slap is your gift to me tonight.

Just a year ago it was diamonds

and furs, now it’s loathing and hate.

I love you, don’t you love me too?

We shed our facades, intermingled

on the floor with our clothes. Blending

and bending our bodies into one

distorted untruth we release, together.

Like always you shower immediately,

washing our sin down the drain.

I go to the kitchen, cooking your favorite

meal, bacon, eggs, toast, and grits.

Tonight, I make you special stone-ground

grains blended with buttercream

and plenty of pepper. Slow-boiling, stirring

them like you stir all my senses.

I click off the stove and something

clicks in me. Outer body bound,

naked with our sex still fresh on my flesh,

I walk to you. "Baby, dinner is ready."

“You still here?”, you say with contempt.

A twitch, a click, I open the bathroom door.

You turn too late; now you're covered in hot

stone-ground pain, screaming like I scream

inside every day for your love. A blur

…all a blur between tears hands shaking,

I take the .38 from my purse; no more pain

for you or me...good-bye my sweet.

No more joy…no more pain.

Tap, tap, tap, I can still hear the rain.

Scream

A. E. Black

SCREAM! Yes, I said SCREAM!

SCREAM! - at broken hearts, broken plates, broken cups, broken fingernails,

At - broken doors, broken arms, broken teeth, broken jaws, broken women

At - broken systems, broken families, broken children, broken hope, broken love

At - broken hymens bleeding out on sheets of broken promises

SCREAM! - at this state of concubinage that women are condemned to live

This stale existence of waiting to be chosen by Prince Charming

SCREAM! - at Fairie God Mothers that don’t exist

SCREAM! - at Walt Disney lying to millions of little girls about Cinderella

SCREAM! - at Biblical stories of good King Solomon’s wisdom and fairness

…..and his 700 wives and 300 concubines

SCREAM! - at his bartering daughters in negotiations with other potentates

SCREAM! - at those 1,000 souls longing to be wanted, to be needed, to be loved
Daughters condemned to a life as status symbols to be collected, traded and bred

Sows in a farrowing barn - fed, pampered, bathed, epilated and dressed in silks

1,000 bodies to be impregnated to bear more breeding stock

That will be sold as pleasure vessels equipped with breasts and vaginas

Incubators to birth more succulent little piggies

SCREAM! - at twisted minds of adolescent boys stuck in bodies of cloistered clergy

Writing such drivel and passing it off as scripture and part of God’s plan?

SCREAM! - at “Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,

Had a wife and couldn't keep her!

He put her in a pumpkin shell,

And there he kept her very well!”

Whose body, whose life, whose soul was this?
SCREAM! - at male fantasies masquerading as scriptures and nursery rhythms

SCREAM! - at childhood indoctrination

SCREAM! -at this abuse and rape culture we are taught from the cradle to the grave

SCREAM, again! Go ahead it’s OK

Then fight and scratch and claw for your right to relieve your own longings

…..and know you don’t fight alone!

Women Scream

S.G. Amenwahsu

Women are screaming because somebody, somewhere stole their innocence and instilled fear, guilt or lust in its place…..

Women Scream because they couldn’t speak before.

They’re screaming because nobody heard them at 8 when they told someone what went down, clearly articulating the scenario, but somebody turned the other way, and no-one did anything to help protect them……

We’re screaming cause we are in PAIN. Many of us have been maimed, but now, it’s a brand new game.

A Woman Screams, because it’s time to HEAL, without taking a pill to numb her Mind, Body & SOUL.

They’re attempting to gain Self-CONTROL……

Women are screaming because we still make .23 on the dollar less than a man, yet do the same work on the J.O.B + more once we walk thru the door at home.

A Woman Screams because she might have 10 years of College with 3 degrees and still come out with nothing more than a DREAM of, “We Shall Over-COME…..”

Women Scream when they’re left by Prince Charming, too often ending up with no job, no home or their American Dream, which in her mind, has turned out to be, more like an American Scheme. Or so it seems….

She screams cause as Fannie Lou Hamer once said, “I’m sick and tired of being sick, and TIRED …...and she’s ready to retire from the Battlefield.

A Woman Screams because she’s in PAIN and knows the HEALING is long overdue.

Women are Screaming, and their cries are being heard all over the World today.

Scream,

Woman

Scream!

(Three-peat verse as echo!)