Guardians

I generally write about darkness.... Time to write about hope.

Guardians

 

Tiny hands wave

And clasp my finger tight

Smiling, I’ve begun to realize

Why women are so vulnerable to hurt.

 

Our hearts are always laid open for the world

To hurt, to gawk at, to protect.

We feel each word like a physical blow

Cringing at sentence structure.

 

But looking at this small creature

Harmless, helpless

It occurs to me that my heart extends to it

Feeling its pain like my own.

 

We hurt so strongly, from the smallest things

And it makes us able to feel the pain

Of the helpless we are asked to nurture

Of the harmless we are asked to guide.

 

If women were calloused

Unable to feel as deep as we are

This child laying here, smiling

Wouldn’t last very long, for the world is harsh.

 

The world that humans have crafted

Is a world where only the strong will thrive

And those who stand in the way of the powerful

Are crushed beneath the heels of angry clowns.

 

We are all that stands in the way of the crashing tide

That swells and threatens to sweep the future out

Before it even has a chance to mature

And become something worth looking forward to.

 

Children are this future

The present despises

And if children are the future

Then women are the guardians of time.

 

By: Shayla Sayer

Reviews

[zainul]

Completely agree with you,Shayla.
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[Daniel DeLorez]

A great idea for a poem. :) It's as true as it is interesting... I never thought of women and parenthood that way! Well done!

[Chris]

You held hope upon your fingertips and colored all the thoughts as they flowed... well done.

[Raven Starhawk]

You have captured another moment in time forever. I cannot express in words how well penned this was.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Ah, you always manage to celanse my mid of thoguhts unwanted, a stark presence inside us all!

[Poetic Beauty]

I loved this poem and the walk through why women feel so deeply. The last stanza is quite amazing. Guardians of time. Never thought of it that way before and this puts a smile on my face.