To be a woman
it has been said
is simply a matter of procreation
to service
to be the pretty face behind the man
the strength
the softness
and the secret wonder
we look forward to that day when
someone
will love us
take our hands
and swear to be our one and only
from that day on
our lives are changed
we leave our work
our love
and become one with the house
where we grow swollen with children
to fill our husband's ancestry
with pride
fortitude
motherhood
silence
and eventually they grow older
and leave us
and we are left alone with nothing
but the husband who is no longer
aroused
by our less-then-supple looks
our age has made us larger
less fit
less beautiful
more open
and we lose ourselves in the memory
of what it was like
to have actually been alive
Author notes
kind of sort of a response to amy's aria in street scene. every time she sings it i want to cry because AH the plight of women in this time period is just depressing. its hard not to react to the words. and this is kind of what's going through my head when she's singing.
um...here's wishing i didn't believe that this was still true...in some sense of the term. but maybe i've just had really bad experiences.
the title is a line from the aria by anna maurrant, "i never could believe".
Please tell me what you think
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This was touching and also in a sence quite personal when I read it.. It reminded me of the time I was married cause this was exactly what my ex husband wanted me for.. He said I would be a good mother to raise his children.. Regaurdless of me not wanting to have them in the first place dispite that my situation was one of self sacrafice but regaurdless of that this poem speaks of what "his" perfect world would have been..
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aw, thank you so much dear. yeah...i think you need to hear this aria. its got to be one of the saddest songs i've ever heard in my life. she talks about all the things she used to dream about as a young person and how none of them have come true. still, she has hope. ah, its so beautiful...everytime i listened to amy sing it...i wanted to cry. because its so sad...but its true, in a really awful sense.
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I would love to hear it sometime.. I'm just not sure how I would..
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=_TL8oBCqaeQ
i hope this works for you. its not the same, obviously, because it isn't amy singing it, but its still the song. its beautiful. -
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Finally got to hear it.. Iam touched but even though the words I did not understand.. (My ears are really bad this week) But all the same tears where shed of this beautiful praise.. Thank you for sharing with me.. You know I must bring to you my own collection of music.. Then I can share to you some of the songs that touch me.. One in particular is a piano piece that I can not express how much I am touch by the wordless wonder of the keys of forever..
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Thanks, I will have to check that out this weekend when I get some free time.. Right now my world is a frozen icicle.. (And I mean that litterally.. Everything is frozen..)
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