The Bi Girl’s Burden- Response to Rudyard Kipling

Mon, 08/07/2017 - 21:29 -- Assaita

Take up the bi girl’s burden

Send forth the best you’ve got

Go tell your daughters all them lies

And make them feel like they’ve been bought

To wait in heavy harness

All cold and all alone

Lock them up in heavy chains

And hear them while they groan

 

Take up the bi girl’s burden

Your lies may still abide

Feed them with your hateful words

And rob them of their pride

And when they’re broken and battered

And can no longer weep

You take your knife and cut them dry

And watch their tears run deep

 

Take up the bi girl’s burden

Watch her grow up strong and weak

Because her mom was blamed for none

And her dad had let her walk free

She took up the fight against humanity

And she did not suffer from insanity

Their words were thrown from left and right

And not once did she lose what’s in sight

 

Take up the bi girl’s burden

Watch how she leaps and grows

And flies away from those who know

And make her feel less grown

There are those who have hurt and betrayed her

And made her feel less tall

So wherever she looks

She never has anyone to call

 

Take up the bi girl’s burden

And make yourself feel shame

Because you have tried to break her pride

And yet you feel the same

You have watched her cry and weep

But like a bird she’ll rise

From those whose hatred runs deep

 

Take up the bi girl’s burden

Because her show is not over yet

Even when you’ve treated her like trash

She’s still a force you’ve never met

Take her word for she has said

Her story will be heard once again

 

Take up the bi girl’s burden

Because she sings with fearful trill

She has scared you with her prowess

She has scared you with her will

And when you least expect it

She will scare you with her wit

 

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