Walking home on her way.
She is just going about her day.
Someone looking to slay.
Who is there to help allay?
Police officer forces a stop.
She thinks, oh just another cop.
Life makes a drop.
Women are not a prop.
For those who want to stalk.
Women just want to walk.
Safely without so much as a balk.
Not ending up in an outline of chalk.
Women are not prey.
In any thought, word, action men want to display.
What are you doing to convey?
This message today.
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- Comment from author about the poem: Another in my thinking about women and what men must do to be better. Don
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me personally? I am letting a victim of violent crime rest in peace
at least: for a week
and empathising with the loss her immediate family and friends are going through, with that 'archaic' instinctively: humane, respect for life..
before, I use her memory as some good-fit martyr for reactionary activism..
but hey, if it inspires your nicely rhymed poem, that's just another way: for your to convey...
I mean look at how much money the tabloids who literally' made Princes Diana a 'martyr': are still profiting, with their monthly 'dedications', inspired to write by her unfaltering fame,
oh how humane...
Valid points made by you. However I think your bringing them up here on my Poem is kind of missing the point. Don
1)I am not the tabloids & I don’t make money off any of my writing. I just write the way I feel with passion.
2)I grieve over injustice in my own way, just like anyone has the right to do, too. Yes anyone having their life cut short in anyway, much more in a criminally violent way is disheartening to say the least. I know a whole world of possibility is now gone with this Woman who died needlessly so, at least that is my opinion. A Whole World of All she was going to be is Gone! Period
I laud your passion and agree with every word in both of your pertinent poems, as I stated already, please don't misunderstand the points I raised in my comments as criticism of yourself personally, however brief our encounters I have hopefully demonstrated enough respect for you as a person and a poet in my past comments on your works..
I was just making observations aimed at highlighting the cynical aspects of 'tabloid inflamed' collective outrage,
I mean exactly how many people died that day in the UK alone, and how may directly caused by crimes committed by the opposite sex, or even the week before?
Why of all those crimes was this particular victim highlighted, the week beginning with march the 8th, same week of Meghan's impassioned exposé piece, a week before mother's day?
yeah, I know, I'm sure its me that's missing the point: not realising the opportunity for change this milestone may represent, I'm sure all this outpouring of passion will help put in place sustainable concrete changes and maintainable - raised awareness levels,
its not like we're being treated like hamsters in a cage, prodded by picturesque - Diana-esque visuals and inflammatory headlines, insuring we all 'collectively' respond with that uniform of 'conditioned' reactionary passion...
just imagine the horror you have to got through if you were part of the victim's family with name and pictures adorning every report, knowing full well your beloved's name and loss is being used for helping raise sales and viewing figures?
what a morbidly depraved act of sabotage we're pretending to ignore, how dare we as a society take part in adding more suffering to these victim's family and pour more flame on the collateral damage, and for what? a week of outcry? quashed by the next human interest bulletin?
yes by all means, let us write and fight to create awareness about the on-going struggle for women but not 'because' its 'march and its women's month', or because 1 out of 1000 similar 'victims' seems to fit some despicably opportunistic need for manufacturing a general consensus by reporters and tabloids, with deadlines to meet...
forgive my chauvinistic, dim-witted intellect's archaic attitude, how obscene of me to question a natural, unscripted natural occurrence of timely happenstance, displaying the goodness in society's outpouring of unified empathy,
I know, its ignorant people like me that like to twist things and attach meaning to unimportant details,
I apologise: sincerely and unreservedly, how very shameful of me
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