plea I

mistrust between women working together
means nirvana will ever be the never-never
intellectual posturing diverts and detracts
from honesty, truth, and basic facts
manipulation and abuse stab us all in the back
and intolerance culminates in personal attack

we must fight the breeding of this kind of hate
or to salvage intent, it will be too late
blind lust for power reflects back on the person
they hack self and others with a strength that's fearsome

such senseless elimination of common goals
means a legacy burnt on the coals
of anger, jealousy, rivalry, and greed
to reach all women we must sow different seeds

seeds of love, respect, equality, a search for light
we must not turn into what we're trying to fight

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