Hermes Wake The Woman Poem by Arnee Akpan

Wake up!
Awake from your slumber
Wear your garment and call your daughters
Raise them like Amazons to stand tall like Helios and his brothers
Yet to love like a Mother


Hermes wake the woman!
Woman why struggle for rights to livelihood with your sons
When you own life itself
Have thou forgotten thy wails that frenzied night?
Have thou forgotten how you fought the fates to keep thy string of life?
Have thou forgotten from thou came Leonidas, Heracles and Achilles


Hermes wake the woman!
Take a ride down the lane of power
Use thy Athenian wisdom
Your Artemisian direction
With thy Aphrodisiac possession
Your craftiness to secure and collect what is yours
Assemble your flock and lead them down the jungle of strength
Hermes wake the woman! ! !