My Pen Guide Me

( This is the third of poems to celebrate women on 8th March on the occasion of International Women's Day 2011)

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My pen guide me to write this
About a story untold
About a person unknown
About a feat uncelebrated


My pen guide me to write this
Let you be the judge
Let you do justice to this soul
Let you lead the story-line

There is a woman
Her name never mentioned in the telly
Her speech never heard in a Conference
Her photo never archived anywhere
Her story tucked in her heart, almost exploding

There is a woman
Every inch the ingredient of a heroine
Every bit the throb of a refreshing story
Every angle the pulse of life

My pen guide me to write this
About a story untold
About a person unknown
About a feat uncelebrated

My pen guide me to write this
Let you be the judge

Let you do justice to this soul
Let you lead the story-line

There is a woman
Who wakes up at crack of dawn
Just to have tea for children before Sunrise;
There is a woman
Who has folded the sacred scroll of the community
inside her heart, yet she is no sentry
There is a woman
Uncorrupted, if she has no food she smiles
 

This woman, my pen guide me to write about
To let the world know; to curve her a place in history
My pen guide me, let you be the judge
To write the story of this woman
Let you do justice to this soul, let you lead the story-line

My pen guide me to write this
About a story untold
About a person unknown
About a feat uncelebrated.

C) Lorot Salem 2011