Letter From the Dark

See me
I am the invisible woman
I am sending you this message from the darkness
of endlessly unrecognized days
Ignore my beauty , my intelligence
my talent for word and image
I have endured all kinds of
atrocities and obscenities
because somehow my invisibility has indicated that
I warrant no respect

You have both visibility and sound
Make them listen to the thunderous roar of my cry
Their inability to see me has
justified their deliberate ignorance
of easily rectifiable injustices
They hear what I say
they just see nothing

I am the invisible woman
Tell them the bare minimum
that one human being owes another
is the right to choose
It is never acceptable for you to
force your body on my body
I always have the choice of what
and where
and who happens to my body

The pain of silence and invisibility
is draining the life out of me!