Invisible - Indivisible - Basha

[Larry Robinson]

Invisible - Indivisible

All the wells went dry
When Miriam died.
Sustainer of her people
She disappeared into death
With no commentary, no praise, no thanks.

When asked to write a poem 
about the invisibility of women:
how her strength has been ignored,
the power to give life
made into a commodity,

I kept hearing the word “indivisible”
as in the pledge of allegiance:
One nation, indivisible.
As in the nature of all things:
Earth fire water air
Indivisible.

Earth spews fire into the air 
oceans collapse into the shoreline
and mountains are formed.
All blood and flesh return to earth
and earth gives life to all -
And yet -
Invisible as air
Unnoticed as the force of gravity
Keeping us safely spinning round the sun,
The force of women is unsung
The role of women unrecognized
The rights of women trampled once again
by minds that seek to divide us.

We are not invisible.
We are indivisible.

In separation we lose 
The thread of life that keeps us tied 
Together.
Let no one be invisible.

We breathe life into each other
Mouth to mouth. Skin to skin.
Links in a chain through time and space
The matrix of cells
That holds the body together
The magnetic pull
That keeps the planets in place
We are of that 
We are that.

Not invisible
but indivisible
from 
the power of life 
itself.

	- Basha


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