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What Gives You the Right?
by Dr. Pearlie M Jones → (All Poetry by Dr. Pearlie M Jones)
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Speaks to domestic violence, rape, and sexual abuse

 I have been told as long as I can remember that  I am supposed to be submissive to the man.  I struggle to live according to my socialization, but what rights do you have to violate my inner  parts with your desires so uncontrolled,  your dreams and visions so unfocused?

Do your rights allow you all forms of abuses when you are socialized to protect me? What rights do you have to lead me when you don‘t know where you are going?
 
What gives you the right to think that the world is your domain?
And where does it tell you that my body is  a part of this acquisition?
Do they entitle you to verbally and physically abuse me
 me while I am still to believe that you love me?
What gives you the right, my brother, my lover, my father, my friend? What Gives you the Right!
 
 © Dr. Jones, Summer 99, Dallas, TX

 

 


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Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on July 21, 2008
Right to the point and a very valid one indeed.....

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed on July 21, 2008
There is no right and no excuse, a powerful pen.


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