BrokenHeartPheko Motaung - Power Relations

You have religion
To support you against me
In all we do together I can't breath
The air of freedom because these
Power relations are firmly
Eschewed in your favour

You have society
To back up your right to treat me
Worse than a beast of burden
In all our wanderings together my
Contributions are not recognised
It is good to be the dominant male
In a patriachal society where the
Unfair distribution of power
Will always favour you

You have the establishment
To encourage your worst excesses
When you abuse me like these
Sewers and hewers of wood
It is only kind of me to live you
For good and find me a real man
Who will love me and appreciate me
For the worthy woman that I am

BrokenHeartPheko Motaung

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