"Forget Me Not"

Forget Me Not

By Eloise Banting

Forget me not -

Forget me never -

Your heart I sought -

Born to be together!

So I give you this seed -

This seed of faith - 

It is born of our creed -

It will keep you safe!

I planted my first when I was only five -

I said a prayer over it to see you in time.

And when it bloomed I wore it everyday in my hair -

So when I blossomed too - you’d stop&you’d stare.

Then you saw me in time -

At the baker’s shop!

Do you remember the flower in my hair?

When you thought that sweet thought??

Days had passed -

And so had the great moons!

We lived in joy!!

(Yet danced on our tombs)

But remember that flower??

Well, that sweet flower I kept!

I dried its soft petals -

In my gold locket they slept!

They bring me luck -

When I walk through the street -

They give me protection -

When the 2 devils lie&they cheat.

The first time I met them - 

The night eclipsed the street.

They were watching and watching -

I could hear the march of their feet.

So I heard them coming -

Faster and faster!

So I sped up -

And my locket I clasped her!

The first devil nearer -

Grazing my thigh and my hip -

The second more eager -

Pressing his fingers against my lip.

Then the first one lifted a gun to my head -

(Holding me closer and closer)

When he finally said -

Give me your money, Your body!

Or I’ll shoot you dead!

I said I have nothing!

Please let me go free!

Just this locket -

One you may keep!

He snatched it off my neck -

And broke the chain -

He opened the lock -

And the petals - to the ground they rained!

So I fell to the ground -

And I knew they would run!

I fell to the ground!

Picking up my petals one by one!

So I darted home -

And held you so close, so tight!

I sewed the petals in your favorite coat!

So you’d stay warm if they take you at night!

Then they broken in soon -

In the closet did I hide -

They knew you were there -

With your polymath mind!

SO away they took you -

But I ran after with my bare feet.

They beat you so mercilessly -

And dragged you through the street!

But I could not let you go -

Without this one thing -

He needed his blessed petal coat -

SO to him the angels would always sing!

They glared&they glared -

And surely said okay -

Searched it for guns, for gold -

And said on his back it can stay!

They said to flee -

And never come back -

But all I saw around me - 

Was death in its tracks!

To my right was a daughter -

Who would never be the same -

Holding her father’s lifeless hand -

After a bullet to his brain.

To my left was a mother -

Being pushed around by three!

To my front were my friends -

Hanged in the sweet trees!

Below my feet was glass -

From our baker’s shop window -

At the door was his body -

And streaming eyes of his widow.

But what do you do -

When tragedy itself abounds?

Does it make it less tragic?

When tragedy surrounds?

The loss of a child -

Too hard to bear.

The loss of a million??

They play, they play(they die)at the Godless fair.

I knelt & I prayed -

To the heavens & those universal gods of grace -

I was told to run home -

To plant my seeds in the back garden vase!

Yet a life without him -

Is no life at all!

But he is cloaked in my love!

And the petals of the fall!

So forget me not -

And forget me never -

Your heart I caught -

We are always together. 

WASP by Eloise Banting

Making Progress.

WASP by Eloise Banting

Daddy was a millionaire,

Mama was a gypsy.

At me the people would stare&stare,

Because I am a mutt of King Henry.

Mama knew her wrecking day --

When my daddy said he’d miss me.

In this home I cannot stay --

And on my cheek he kissed me.

People say my kind have it easy too easy --

Cus in we life we may have all we want.

But survivors come in many forms --

When half of you has gold and the other nothing to flaunt.

But there are many things money can’t buy --

That I inherited from my gypsy.

I am tricky-tricky with a heart so sly,

And the boys-the boys they want to kiss me.

Am I white? So white?

Am I an easily-tanned-Euro-king?

Do I protesteth what’s right, so right?

Yes,for I am an inbred wasp -best beware my sting.

"Hope - Know My Worth" by Eloise Banting

Hope

I was born to heal -

Compressed into beauty -

From coal to something real -

To make those I touch free.

But so roughly I was FOUND -

By a man who did not know my worth -

I was found from my sparkle UNDERGROUND -

I was found in the beauty of Earth.

They took me away -

To be carved into their currency -

They said in your Eden you cannot stay -

Because you belong overseas.

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You will give me fortune -

You will give me fame.

Though you were born to heal -

I will force you into a bejeweled frame.

But I will pass you along -

Among my parasites - my friends -

I will lock you in my closet -

Because your profitable sparkle never ends.

Though you were born of the great spirit -

To give life in those that sold you - 

I will sell you and I SOLD you -

Because you will give me profit.

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But those deserving of me -

Know my worth so sweet!

And those who cannot see -

How my healing powers cannot be beat -

Are the ones who lose -

The goodness of my soul -

For they so self-righteously choose -

To see me as gold - more gold!

I was carved by the high man -

I was carved by the corrupt pope -

But I am not 'The Hope Diamond' -

I want to be just hope.

Yet you see more value -

In those jewels in the flood -

Not the ones passed around -

More than the diamonds of blood.

No man can see my worth -

Even the ones who crave -

The spotlight for protecting -

My bloody peers from their blood grave.

"Fallen" by Eloise Banting

Fallen

They called me a devil for my lace -

With horrors and names they were calling.

They called me the ugliest disgrace -

For I am among the fallen.

Pictures and portraits so rotten -

Caricatures of a clown.

And they said I would soon be forgotten -

Forcing me 6-feet underground.

Don’t they see my heart so pure?

My soul of the Universe’s vastness?

And every heartache ill I can cure -

But I am the one so classless.

But they need a figure -

To ease the evils of the world.

For they blame the seekers -

And they say I raise Hell on Earth.

Yet the ones who say so -

Are the ones who ignore -

The ones who need saving -

And forget what we’re here for.

The liar and the thief -

You say they are Satan too -

Who stole money for a friend -

When the devil is in you.

Because the devil is in you.

Not in the survivor -
Not in the sweet soul of the survivor.

The Trump Administration: What's their latest jab at women you ask??

So there’s news of another blatant insult and crime against women all over the world from the Trump administration. What’s new? The latest of these degrading executive decisions comes in the form of a full fund cut-off from the U.S. government to the United Nations Population Fund - an organization dedicated to reproductive health and care of women and people all over the world. 150 countries depend on this fund for healthcare benefits and it is predicted that there will be a loss of $32.5 million in their 2017 budget. The Trump administration says it will not support the UNPF’s alleged aid of forced abortion and sterilization in China, which has a strict two-child policy. To me - it isn’t about whether the UNPF supports these abortions or not - or whether they provided such aid to China -their ultimate goal is about ensuring that, if they are forced, that women have the SAFEST and most affordable healthcare possible anywhere in the world - who knows where they might seek these services or who might provide them - even if they are appointed by the government - if they cannot afford such care from qualified medical aids. So the Trump administration are re-appropriating these funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development - which is entirely too dangerous as the federal executive authority (the Trump administration) has most of the say in what the U.S.A.I.D. does - and the TA says no to women’s healthcare. 

In a final statement the UNPF said that these claims were “erroneous” and 

that that they “[refute] this claim, as all of its work promotes the human rights of individuals and couples to make their own decision, free of coercion and discrimination.”