Womankind

Under the shadowed covering Hold this body as it's shattering And nerves and hearts lie quivering Your traumas, how they go unseen A lifting of the covered dark The silence there, it breaks your heart And buried sounds, I believe you I tell you now, I always knew That this happens to women Oh, and womenkind Maimed bodies make the longest of lines And so the voices sink deep down Ropes, they pull at buried sounds And reigning hands, they threaten us To carry inside a silent dust A body's not a public space Corporal autonomous place Hands that enter your space They violate the whole human race Take your body back for you In sacred flesh, held in sacred view Women, girls, all genders align Survivor's blood, survivor's mind And everyone who cares for others' lives It's time this silence comes alive Before it breaks the night And there are no stars left in our eyes I hear your silence, I always knew I tell you now, I believe you