Death is a Woman

by Kassandra S. Larsen

Please

Please

Please let me sleep

I am beaten

Bruised

And bleeding

I need to be healed

Caressed

Nurtured

And rocked to sweet slumber

Need to touch your soft skin

Rest my head on your bosom

Look deep into

Your depthless eyes

And sigh as I return

To home

For now I know

That life is a man

Who rapes me repeatedly

And I cannot bear

To feel his weight on me

Again

For now I know

That death is a woman