Invokation to free women - Ruth Barett

Dancing Tree Music home > music > Parthenogenesis > lyrics Music Parthenogenesis Lyrics INVOCATION TO FREE WOMEN Words by Ruth Barrett and Felicity A. Flowers Traditional Melody Adapted by Ruth Barrett It wasn't very long ago in the early morning I dreamt of women wild and free, or slavery unknowing I awoke, I awoke to distant voices fading The vision of what might have been Dissolved in slumber's waning Hecate, Hecate, Wise One of the Crossroads Guide our path through darkest night To the truth within us It wasn't very long ago, my senses can remember They tore the baby from the breast, and then refused to feed her Crying, crying, through countless wars and plunder They took our Goddess, and our lives, our bodies torn asunder Kali, Kali, Queen of Storms and Rages Pierce through lies of mind and heart As we bring the changes We have come and we were born to do our own myth making To turn the tide and end the tears, long centuries of waiting Turn again, turn again, turn again the stories That rendered us invisible in history's pale glories Gaia, Gaia, Mother of the Living Heal our bodies, and our souls Grant us new beginnings Women come together to move in one direction To stop the raping of the world and give the Earth protection Rising, rising, the sacred woman soul In us the present and the past, the future we unfold