This work is part of TAG: A Poeta Project. It is a  response to Singing Crow’s Ballad by Scott Losi

“Crow’s Ballad – A response to Scott Losi”

I am not deterred

By your rusted nails

Your icy demeanor

Your wooden fence

Barbed

With wire.

I echo the women

The strength

That came before me.

I push

Past

Barriers

built with Battalions of history

Rules grounded and pounded in stone

Cracked with the coming

Of us.

We are the Crows

Singing ballads

Sewing hope

Serving justice

From rusted trumpets

We call our sisters to rally.

On the ledge of your laws we stand

Tiptoe

Hand in hand

We march

Forward.

By Karen Eckert