Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned

Timeless and spaceless
Millenniums go by.
No beginning no start
And thee would have thought once bitten twice shy

Outside, temptress beneath
Sly grew not shroud.
Four times before fall
Slashed and sold to envious hands of the blasphemous and proud

Egyptian goddess of Sun
Enticed by white blood.
Her mighty downfall
Last glance at poisonous viper before the Romans flood

Into massacred thousands
Over Eastern mountains died.
Masquerade of Adam’s clothing
Headstrong in her Father’s honour and Motherland’s pride

Is unwanted where God was
As Man’s words spoke evil.
Led Holy fight in His name
Even as tongues of fire consumed her raped and curled

Body burned or hanged
No escaping death’s claws.
Integrity above succumbing
To the rigid majority culture of hallucination over reality

Was marriage and family
Imagination an endless maze.
Trade a parasol for a musket
When life was a sea scavenger’s swashbuckling vessel always

A warrior embedded deep
Native lines ran long.
Spears against rifles
Colonialism was but a troublesome stranger fought till gone

Were sunshine daydream
All was fear and death.
A living breathing nightmare
Yet she followed him dutifully to her very last breath

Through the history worn ages
So see the forgotten and the mourned.
The respected and the remembered
Did Scarlett’s words ring true that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?

Valerie Champion
4J

2nd stanza: Delilah (Famous biblical figure as the one who deceived Samson into telling her the secret of his strength).
3rd stanza: Cleopatra (Egyptian queen famous for her affair with Roman soldiers Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony).
4th stanza: Hua Mulan (Chinese women warrior who disguised herself as a man to fight in her Father’s place in the Emperor’s royal army against the Mongols).
5th stanza: Joan of Arc (French girl who sacrificed her life for her religion).
6th stanza: Women slain during the late 1600s Salem Witch Trials.
7th stanza: Grace O’Malley (Dubbed ‘Pirate Queen’ of the Irish seas).
8th stanza: Lozen (Fought in the Apache wars; Native Indian tribe of Chihenne-Chiricahua Apache against the European colonials of the 1800s in North America).
9th stanza: Eva Braun (Adolf Hitler’s mistress and later wife, shortly before both committed suicide).
10th stanza: Scarlett O’Hara (Fictional character in “Gone With The Wind”, most famous for the line “Hell Hath No Fury Like A Women Scorned”).