My Other Names.

[witchscauldron]

I have more names than you know.
I've been called Whore.
I've been called Mother.
I've been called Goddess.
I've been called by as many names as there are tongues;
in every known language and several you devised.
But, these you have pasted on with your spit,
your semen,
your Holy water.
I am beginning to peel them off.
I am burning through your papier-mâché;
For I am she-who-rises-with-her hair in flames.
I am she who splits and bleeding rises up-whole.
I am she who lies under and rises angry.

I am woman rising .

Call me by my proper name.

~Sarah Provost, Schenectady, N.Y.~