Therapy 19.5.25

To be unbelieved

Wills wounds on young women

Weaves webs around wonder

Works walls,

Wires whimsy into weariness

Forces grown up thoughts

Into young girls’ minds

With no libraries, no shields.

No swords.

When I think of all I will have to say and

Share with my daughters

Lamentations, songs of praise

Rituals of war and peace

I can’t help but mourn

All I had to learn, alone

With no gentle goddess to teach

Or wise warrior to protect

Me.