Scars and scarfs. Threads and Threats.
Burning streets cry out of brutality.
An act of morality?
Do you not read your own history?
Teargas will not cause weeping
Any more than your violence preceded.
Has your humanity receded? Can you not see a single life was pleaded?
Hiding behind what’s between the lines, of subjective scripture.
Can you not picture?
The eyes of your own daughter?
I will not pretend I know fully of what I speak.
I will not pretend to be fully in your fight.
But the right, to voice
For choice. Should always be defended.
And so I speak through these words my love
Acts against oppression should be written of.
Heralded and encouraged.
Voices of women. Of men.
In unity shall not be buried.
Commentary:
What is happening today in the streets of Iran is not something that I’ll pretend to fully grasp. But what I do believe is that morality never equals brutality. What I do understand is that choice is a freedom that is innate to any conscious living being and should under no circumstance be shackled or met with violence. I stand with the many women who stand for the core principles of what makes us human.