Look What they Gone Done to Birth By Earth Lande

Look what they've gone done to birth

Trying to strip it of everything it's worth

Laughing

Scoffing at the power of Mother Earth

It wasn't broke, it didn't need to be fixed

What they've gone done to birth makes me sick

Hiding behind the disguise of just "wanting to help"

That's like loving a child with the sting of a belt

Giving birth?

That's a woman's bewitching hour

Don't you know?

They fear our power

Looking like a clan hidden behind white masks and draped

Putting on latex

Breathing at his patient mounted for rape

See they're hunters

They go after their prey

Never in a circle kneeling into the position to pray

Saying Shut up

Be quiet

All you live for is to reproduce

I wanna go play golf- this one we'll induce

Hurt? Give her drugs

Oh we don't want her to know she's strong

And if anything bad happens at all?

Blame her

Tell her SHE did something wrong

This one?

Heh, we'll just cut her open

WE KNOW IT'S SO MUCH FASTER

So you question why I call them evil old bastads?

All our days they've labeled us birthing slaves

Telling us our sole worth is only to give birth

And now we don't even know how it works!

Treating us like cattle

Turning MY uterus into a Governmental Battle!

Oh we own all this

You can have that little bit

But if anything inside grows- WE want to own

WE want to control it

That wanna own LIFE

The price

OUR BODIES

OUR BABIES

OUR HUMANITY is a sacrifice

Listen

Giving birth is as NATURAL as it gets

All you have to go is go back to the old testament

When Abraham's granddaughters were giving birth in the red tent

Women with women praying to the Queen of Heaven

Never a woman alone among bad gods being gnawed at like a bone

I know you're afraid

Because the days of the red tent hath fade

And they've convinced you to be sure

That pregnancy is a disease and they are the cure

Their power is fear

Their objective to teach us or to TRAIN us to HATE IT down here

GIVING BIRTH IS NOT A RACE

There is no first or second place!

It is an emergence to be embraced

It is when your soul and your spirit come face to face

We are perfect every way and in every form

It is in the heart and the womb that a child is born

AND IT IS NOT OKAY EVERY DAY

TO CUT A WOMAN OPEN

TAKE HER BABY OUT

KEEP FROM HER

SAY TO HER

OH DON'T WORRY HONEY

THAT'S WHAT NORMAL BIRTH IS ALL ABOUT

Women from Brazil

To the Nation's Capital Hill have been lied to

Have been tricked

VAGINAL BIRTH IS BROKEN!

They say

The C-Section! It's the fix!

Sisters who run marathons and have climbed the highest

mountain peak

Have been brainwashed into believing they are fragile, they

are weak

Oh we can't do it without drugs! They cry

To do so may cause pain, so why even try?

IT IS UP TO YOU

IT IS UP TO ME

TO SET THE TRUTH OF CHILDBIRTH FREE

It can no longer be held captive or quiet

It is time to insight a Birth Rights Riot.



By Earth C. Lande
you can view the poem on youtube as well