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Nevertheless, She Persisted
A poem by me, with apologies to Dylan Thomas:
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Nevertheless, she persisted.
Live women fighting we shall be one
With la Liberté and the French Joan;
When their hearts are picked clean and the clean hearts gone,
She shall wear laws at elbow and foot;
Though she go mad she will be sane,
Though she flees through the sea she shall rise again;
Though justice be lost the just shall not;
For nevertheless, she persisted.
.
Nevertheless, she persisted.
Over the whinings of their greed
Men lying long have now lied windily;
Changing their tacks when stories give way,
Stacking their courts, yet we shall not break;
Faith in our hands shall snap in two
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up she shan’t crack;
And nevertheless, she persisted.
.
Nevertheless, she persisted.
No more may Foxes cry in decline
Or news break loud to a silenced room;
Where fawned a follower may a follower no more
Bow his head to the blows of this reign;
Though she be mad and tough as nails,
Her headlines in characters hammer the dailies;
Break in the Sun ‘till the Sun breaks down,
As nevertheless, she persisted.
Source: https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/nevertheless-she-persisted/
