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Women's hearts

Women's hearts

She left loss behind, campaigning
For want. Desire lapped the ‘pool’
She stood above the well-born
The Royal Albert was their hall.

Their hands bound when arrested –
Hunger struck whilst behind bars
You may force-feed me if that’s your will
But you are so very far

From winning over our design, so dearly sought –
It speaks to what we’re worthy of.
Forgotten souls us suffragists –
Behold danger, unaware of.

Harking back a century
Their sentiment was lost –
Mother had no right to children, born –
Given to the wealthy, to adopt.

Standing in front of the horse
With jockey on the ride
Journalists would cover it –
The rising of the tide.
  
Stand out, stand up, stand your ground –
“Women count,” Mrs. Pankhurst said
A cause, so bold, emboldened
By women’s hearts that bled.
 

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Owen James

Written after seeing the movie ‘Sufragette’ with Carey Mulligan, in honour of Emily Pankhurst and the Suffragettes movement in the UK in the early 20th century. All women over the age of 21 finally received the vote in the UK in 1928. 
 

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