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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 18 - Summer 2001

< Dedication
 
< Parole - a Time for Hope, but Pitfalls Wait
 
< Legal Corner: "Illegal Sex" - CDC's biased definition
 
< Editorial: A Time for PRIDE?
 
< Women Loving Women in Prison: A New Issue of Sinister Wisdom
 
< Prison or Kids. It's not a Joke.
 
< The Journey
 
< Linda Evans at San Francisco Dyke March
 
< CCWP celebrates International Women's Day
 
< Lesbian
 
< New Parole Regulations on Battered Women - NOT ENOUGH
 
< Released on Parole!
 
< Helen Loheac's Glasses, an Update
 
< It's Your Health: Lesbians and HIV/AIDS
 
< Former Political Prisoners Speak Out for Lesbian Pride
 
< Clandestine Kisses
 
      

The Journey

by R.C., CCWF

Drawing of a ship with sails, by L. McClary, VSPW
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice-
the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations-
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
but little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
though the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do-
determined to save
the only life you could save.


Drawing by L. McClary, VSPW

Last updated August 18, 2003 01:14 PM



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