<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Invisible - Indivisible</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">All the wells went dry</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">When Miriam died.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Sustainer of her people</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">She disappeared into death</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">With no commentary, no praise, no thanks.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">When asked to write a poem </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">about the invisibility of women:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">how her strength has been ignored,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the power to give life</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">made into a commodity,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I kept hearing the word “indivisible”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">as in the pledge of allegiance:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">One nation, indivisible</i>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">As in the nature of all things:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Earth fire water air</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Indivisible.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Earth spews fire into the air </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">oceans collapse into the shoreline</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and mountains are formed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">All blood and flesh return to earth</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and earth gives life to all -</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">And yet -</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Invisible as air</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Unnoticed as the force of gravity</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Keeping us safely spinning round the sun,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The force of women is unsung</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The role of women unrecognized</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The rights of women trampled once again</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">by minds that seek to divide us.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We are not invisible.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We are indivisible.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">In separation we lose </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The thread of life that keeps us tied </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Together.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Let no one be invisible.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We breathe life into each other</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Mouth to mouth. Skin to skin.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Links in a chain through time and space</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The matrix of cells</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">That holds the body together</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The magnetic pull</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">That keeps the planets in place</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We are of that </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We are that.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Not invisible</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">but indivisible</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">from </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the power of life </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">itself.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- <span style="text-align: right;" class="">Basha</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: right; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>