Posted by Carol on August 29, 2004 at 11:21:04
In Reply to: Re: Amazon Warrior Women posted by Perry on August 27, 2004 at 19:52:52:
I belong to a women's chorus, and we sing a composition by Kim Baryluk called "Warrior":
I was a shy and lonely girl.
With the heavens in my eyes.
And as I walked along my way
I heard the echo of her cries.
I cannot fight.
I cannot a warrior be.
It's not my nature or my teaching.
It is the womanhood in me.
I was a lost and angry youth.
There were no tears in my eyes.
I saw no justice in my world,
Only the echo of her cries.
I am an older woman now.
And I will hear my own cries.
And I can and will a fierce warrior be
'Til not another woman dies!
I can and will fight!
I can and will a warrior be!
It is my nature and my duty!
It is the sisterhood in me!
Baryluk wrote this in 1993 "in response to the broad daylight murder of a woman by her stalker, a former health care worker against whom she had a restraining order. He shot her at a bus stop with a bunch of school children around. This was one of three murders of women (by their partners or ex-partners or former care givers) in the Winnipeg area in a space of about a month. Initially struck dumb by its stark brutality, Kim's song was a way of speaking, of responding.
Many individuals and groups sing this song on December 6th in remembrance of the women massacred in Montreal in 1989 and as a message of empowerment for all of us." (Nancy Rheinhold, Wyrd Sisters)
If anyone wonders what this has to do with The Family, please consider how many women were raped, prostituted, lost children, abandoned, beaten, abused as young girls, or died as a consequence of Family teachings. And what a supreme irony that it was a woman who is the power behind that throne.