Poetry
I Must Say
I am the poem of life
You extol me in fables of love
Fellows admire me for lust
Desires invent moonlight in me
You drape me in seductive poem
And yet equal I was not meant to be In religion you revere my Mahatmya
To you Coatlicue I become creating celestial
Purity of my soul you uncover
The messenger of gods I come to be
At the altar you sacrifice my chastity
And yet equal I was not meant to be You find warmth in my arms
On soft nights gentle longing I become
But as I harvest from others
The freedom of my being
You find the whore in me
Come change the language labyrinth I cradle human kind in my womb
You I have nurtured through history
Without me you bind the limitless horizon
I have tongue of endless tenacity
Yet you define my right to speech
Come see me actuate the new diary Through centuries you translated my being
At the crossroads of paradox
Today I break the chain of your definition
Not you but I have the power of creation
Come see the human in me My swan song, I am a woman
The creator of life, the gentle, the force …
You extol me in fables of love
Fellows admire me for lust
Desires invent moonlight in me
You drape me in seductive poem
And yet equal I was not meant to be In religion you revere my Mahatmya
To you Coatlicue I become creating celestial
Purity of my soul you uncover
The messenger of gods I come to be
At the altar you sacrifice my chastity
And yet equal I was not meant to be You find warmth in my arms
On soft nights gentle longing I become
But as I harvest from others
The freedom of my being
You find the whore in me
Come change the language labyrinth I cradle human kind in my womb
You I have nurtured through history
Without me you bind the limitless horizon
I have tongue of endless tenacity
Yet you define my right to speech
Come see me actuate the new diary Through centuries you translated my being
At the crossroads of paradox
Today I break the chain of your definition
Not you but I have the power of creation
Come see the human in me My swan song, I am a woman
The creator of life, the gentle, the force …
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