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there is no reason for a little girl to be mutilated and shamed for a desire we all possess there were opportunities for self-discipline and self-control to be taught, but they chose violence instead how? how can this be purity or a cleanse? a child left with scars and pain before she can even speak up or comprehend it is a complete violation of human rights derived from fear, myths, misogyny, and lies you can’t tell that little girl she is whole when a part of her has died this is not protection it is a cruel act to suppress, punish, and control it’s the kind of evil where you keep it on the low no child should be punished for curiosity, or for questioning those natural feelings that arise you may think that lust is a sin, but this is no way to treat a human life
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Mar 5
Mar 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM UTC
FGM
They sharpen the knife Not to shape my life But to make me someone's wife That will lead to a strife They want to bleed me dry They don't care if I cry They are not even shy To push my legs wide open,why? The scars will last till eternity Have I mentioned infertility My ****** will now be with great difficulty What about the infections due to increased susceptibility I once had a dream of marrying Abdul Bhula But because of the risk of obstetric fistula How can a woman not have a child and be a ruler Then she will cry having conversations with God in a Dua If they care Let them not dare To do the same to my sister Leah I know the pain she can't bare To silence the voices inside my head This practices must be dead For our daughters to live happily wed We have to forget the outdated practices of the dead © Lone Star ✨ poet ® Jerusa Mentrin
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May 2, 2022
May 2, 2022 at 3:34 PM UTC
SKELETONS OF CULTURE
El Nino, the jokes go, is responsible, to be levied our distaste.  What a disgrace, they're putting a Hispanic face on 1998's over a 100,000 killed by supposedly natural disasters.  Now Nina, naming her the cause of world drought, global warming, which the technocracies' altering weather cycles determined.  Their greed makes lies fly as truth, can your convenience, in allowing them to do it, further? This while they enjoy unparalleled short-term profits, paid for in real deficits, brought by their murdering of eco-systems, our progeny will pay a thousand times those delusional profits to repair, unsuccessfully.  That unending river of humanities' blood will soon take billions of poor to middle class lives before the extinction. Still, every second over an acre of rainforest is felled, every three a woman is castrated, a child dies, and only 50 % of us bother to vote! Still, we don't have real compassion for ourselves or others.  If no real changes will take place now, then  when, if not here, where, you, who?
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May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019 at 10:56 PM UTC
Millennia Muted
There, I wrote it. Above. I simply believe it needs to be in print... out there, so to speak, And perhaps a few hundred may read, ******** And, hysterically, or in solace, Make use of it; Openly, lingusly or fingeratively, As we do ***** ****** and ******* (tsk-tsk). Whether you agree or not, please yourself.
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Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 3:11 PM UTC
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Circum/stances (slash) foregone circumvent forebears circus-schisms of the forefathers circumferences foreordained . . . Abrahamic inferences Feminine foreclosures Unfabulous infibulations Equivocating equivalencies . . . Childbearing foreborne Preposterous paradigm Gender agenda return to sender Hebraic / Pharaonic / Moronic . . . Abracadabra   Presto change-o !
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Apr 27, 2018
Apr 27, 2018 at 10:08 PM UTC
Skin in the Game
Tightening vines about a blossoms throat, Choking roots, entwined: Preventing the dew to soak. Burning butterfly wings, Mutilating the ones with flowers. There's no song to sing, To relieve big hands from power.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 3:29 PM UTC
Crushing ants