women and wars

Women of Troy

by Toni Truesdale

If we could relook at recorded history

We might see violence in actuality

For war was never an anomaly

But an established heritage.

Atmospheric metaphors of

Bloody aggression

Fill archaic epics of tragedy

Words describe vivid exploits of blood

Weigh in simplistic heroic glory

Subtle crafting of patriarchal theology

Create the continuing spiral

Oppression of all living things., esp. femininity.

Destroys the “other”

Vilifying victims.

Who, in turn, rise up in eventuality

The mimicry learned

To terrorize too, in

The cycles of destruction

Could we see the futility of male conquest and beyond

Through the eyes of women?

Who see immediately the true cost of forceful power.

And reverse the emulation of annihilation