Did Femida go missing
The day Bill killed the Buffalo?
Alas, it was long before then.
Femida had disappeared,
in 1842,
When Elphinstone's men
died at Gandamak.
Femida wasn't there,
in 1838,
To stop Colonel Snodgrass
at Waterloo Creek.
Femida was long gone,
in 1822,
When the Ottoman Malitia
slayed forty thousand Greeks.
Femida might have cried,
in 1812,
To see Wellington's men
turn from hell hounds to heaps
of blood soaked bodies after
raping and robbing to siege a town
that was neither their's nor their enemy's
in the battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
No, Femida had vanished
from the hearts of men,
Though they may have erected
great statues in her name.
Eras before that,
in Sweden, Cyprus and France,
in Germany and Jerusalem,
in Macedonia, Xu Province,
in Britannia and all the lands across the Earth,
Where men laid claim to power and greed,
Where men traded morals for a spear and a crown,
Femida was not heard, nor seen.
Who remembers Femida,
Lady Justice,
Goddess Maat,
Themis of good council?
Did the ancient Greeks
think of her while they fought their Persian Wars?
Does America betray her now
as they refuse refuge to those in need?
Is it an act of blasphemy
when men erect an idol
for Justice and Equality,
then give her a sword
and blindfold her eyes,
Then call themselves forgiven
when claiming that their treachery
was all in the name of God.
Femida was never missing.
Femida never cried for us.
Femida was never here at all.
They stood her on a pedestal,
then silenced her.
They gave her breasts,
then mauled and raped her.
They put a knife in her hand,
then murdered her.
Femida will never judge us.
We are Femida,
and Femida's soul is slain.