Poet Lorraine Brooks shared her newest poem, A Woman’s Choice, on last night’s Divabetic 12th Year Podcast Anniversary Special. Overnight there’s been a tremendous response to Lorraine’s powerful verse.
A Woman’s Choice by Lorraine Brooks
A woman’s choice
a woman’s voice
A voice that claims
Her rightful domains
To make decisions
Without derision
To control our fate
To procreate
To love at will
To take a pill
I’ve had my fill
Of Capitol Hill
They tell me why
l must comply
With laws that make me
Someone’s property
Heaven forbid
l choose to get rid
Of a child of a rape
Or a need to escape
From abuse or unfairness
From lack of awareness.
A part of this nation
I want education
And as a minority
l resent superiority
l resent being told
I must fit in your mold
And that l must submit
To some old hypocrite
Who is hellbent on taking me
Back to last century.
But we’re not done fighting
For laws that need writing
For fairness and decency
And justice spread evenly.
The fight is not over
The US will recover
From all this confusion –
And once and for all honor its Constitution.
Listen to Lorraine Brooks perform A Woman’s Choice on Divabetic’s 12th Year Podcast Anniversary Special. Other guests include Susan Weiner MS, RDN, CDCES, Ivan Hampden Jr., and Collage Artist Tom Cocotos. Hosted by Mr. DIvabetic with musical inspiration from Babyface courtesy of SONY Music.
