Dear Sister

This is a piece that I posted at another website. I wanted to share it here because someone may enjoy it.


Dear sister,
Im trying to hear you,
from this masculine cage.
I would have text'd you or sent a page.
Instead I wrote this
from the well of my heart.
Its so sad to see your worlds apart.
Daughter of man,
yet hard to understand.
At least thats what they say.
Yet Im trying to hear you.
In the motherland,
they circumcise your clit
To take away your feelings
but they cant steal your heart
Even if they try to tear you apart.
Some in Asia are sold into slavery.
I still see your smile,
your the face of bravery.
A human with a vagina just aint safe.
In wars they rather rape,
than to heal you,
they take your babies and kill you.
For some its a thrill to,
shame and defame
your body,
but you bother nobody,
You was just born to be somebody.
Still sister Im trying to hear you
men hate you
'cuz really they fear you.
Its sad because you cannot tell no one,
but another woman
to understand where you coming from.
Im just one brother,
who's trying to hear your pain
Im just one brother,
trying to feel your pain.
While media depicts you
as a whore,
I see it in your eyes,
you are so much more.
Your my sweet honey in the rock,
my Tracy Chapman,
my Erika Badu,
my Mary J Blige
my Angie Stone.
I know.
I that I know.
That you
just wanted to be loved.
But the world gave you hate.
So this is that which makes you date.
Thugs, pimps, and weak men
who pretend to get you messy
but you cant name one friend.
Sister... Im trying to hear you,
through your tears,
through your fears,
through these years.
I just want you to know,
I hear.
I hear.
I hear.

Richard J Wright (2007)