(Poem) Jeanne of the Congo by Janine Canan

JC Congo women

 

No, she was not burned at the stake.

She was tied to a tree

while gangs of men raped her over

and over for many weeks.
After her first surgery

they continued with their raping,

forcing her to give birth

in front of them, with guns.

Fortunately

the baby died or they

would have raped and murdered

that new life too.

Small and dark, young Jeanne

struggles to the stage and speaks

with the loud voice, laser focus

and fury of pure Virtue.

My mouth is hers roaring from Bukavuto, Sonoma,

every continent on Earth:  Are you tired yet

 of your domineering pornographing predatory

lusting after the power

of demons? Are you satisfied yet—

ugly, cruel, stupid, useless,

vicious, hate-filled,

not even human?

 

You stole the sacred body

of a human being and you desecrate it

every time you dishonor

a woman.

“Jeanne of the Congo,” Janine Canan’s powerful poem about women and world-wide rape culture, will appear in her forthcoming book Consciousness.

Read Meet Mago Contributor Janine Canan.


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  1. I can feel the savage rawness of such acts of male power over this captive Woman.These acts acts must have produced a heart tore apart, and Her soul holding on for dear life. But Her pure rage & cries for justice as an innocent speaks through your words. A more pitiful victim I have not heard of.
    May all who read this account of what happened to this Woman ask the Great Mother Goddess to bring these vile men of power & hatred into Her hands. Don’t think that She is the last or that we Women could have been Her.

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