Now You Have Touched a Woman - by Fabu

Burqua clad women
are covered in Islamic mystery.
Who can decipher their lives
and the meaning of all that is hidden?

Women of the Middle East
your desire for freedom
crosses lands and oceans
engaging feminine hearts and minds.

What I want for me as a woman in America
can I want for you?
Enough love, enough peace, enough resources
to span generations.   An end to war.

Now you have touched a woman
you have touched a stone
the women of South African chanted
then took their nation from their enemies.

May your struggle sisterwomen be the same.
Do only what you must
to keep the beast called war contained
to protect your children.