Inner Woman

Of honor

or shame

they look

the same

of sweat

of tears

of strife

to build

Heritage proud

a country free

Undermined

by those who dwell

in the past

demanding a price

from the innocent child

of heartless history

repeating its

refrain

divide and conquer

set brother on brother

and leave

sister and mother

to mourn the shell

of their

grandfather’s dream

The lessons of the past

unlearned

doomed to repeat

the loop an ever

tightening noose

Stained in horded love

never given

in anger’s righteous wrath