Rising Women

rising women, let it be known

out of their cages

into freedom they’ve flown

capture the essence of all they have been

recorded, experienced, all that they’ve seen

with strength and resolve to change the old ways

they’re gathering, sharing and counting the days

the days and the hours that it will take now to spread

from woman to woman, across the ground that we tread

from sister to sister, crossing oceans and plains

what are they sharing? what are the gains?

thru silence and stillness, often witnesses they’ve been

now they’re emerging, no longer unseen

they ready to hold hands creating a web

and we will all listen to what will be said

they know that the suffering, the suffering has grown

from controls, dominance, imbalances we’ve known

so to step into the light and see, be the change

will take every woman who’s no longer estranged

estranged from the future, the future that can be

where her children, grandchildren can truly be free

where life on this planet is honoured and kept

free from pollution and balance is reset

where the sharing of goods becomes local again

and healthcare and education are easy to attain

where beauty is enhanced on every inch of the Earth

where there is a total renewal, a total rebirth

women are rising for they always birth the new

and from heart to heart they are calling to you

gather the wisdom, the love that you’ve known

for those are the seeds that are about to be sown