Dark Mother
~In memory of an unnamed woman from Sevastopol, Ukraine,
who was burned on a stake as a witch, January, 1997.

She is the unnamed woman.
Her name is my own.
She is me.

Her rope burns scar my wrists.
I am tied to the stake.
I am burned.

Let my death be remembered.
My death transforms me.
I am renewed.

Use my anger
to heat the forge of change.
Use my rage
to temper the blade of justice.

Empower my voice
so that I may speak
for the forever silent.

~Flame RavenHawk
    February 16, 1997