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❤️❤️❤️🙌 beautiful poem. I loved it, so powerful!

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sonja ringo's avatar

Thank you so much for reading <3

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Candace's avatar

Yesss the power of the line break at “do not touch it. Do not” 🔥🔥🔥

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sonja ringo's avatar

thank you!! i love when people notice these types of intentional things.. i appreciate you reading / noticing!

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jennae's avatar

thank you so much for writing and sharing this. thank you.

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sonja ringo's avatar

here to help the voices get louder and louder 🙏🙏

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jennae's avatar

it's so needed 🙏🏼

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Siobhán O'Connor's avatar

This is fucking amazing. I have been through an abortion. It was awful but it was vital to my life, my sanity. I thought constantly about how lucky I was to live in a country where it is not fucking ILLEGAL, on top of everything else. Also, just a side note, but I fucking love reading to a piece of music. Thanks.

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sonja ringo's avatar

I’m glad you enjoyed the song, and this piece — I felt the song was sooo accurate to how i wanted the poem to feel. and i really appreciate you sharing your story here. your choice is valid, and it is YOURS <3

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Charity Anne Green's avatar

hells to the yes.

sharing EVERYWHERE.

thank you (!!) sonja.

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sonja ringo's avatar

Ahhh I adore and appreciate you sm! Thanks for helping spread these flames 💗

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Charity Anne Green's avatar

THANK. YOU.

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sonja ringo's avatar

thank YOU for being here, reading this <3

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Lorraine Fae's avatar

everything about this!!

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sonja ringo's avatar

thank you so much for reading it 🔥 means a lot to me!!

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LeeAnn Pickrell's avatar

Absolutely yes!

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sonja ringo's avatar

Thank you so much for reading! 🔥

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wildflower's avatar

So important and so incredibly written. Great poem, Sonja, with a strong message!!

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sonja ringo's avatar

i’m so grateful for you reading it 🥹 thank you for resonating!! i was a bit nervous to share this one but it’s important to share our truths always, i think <3

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wildflower's avatar

Definitely. 🤍

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

Beautifully written. I’m with you 100%. Fuck the patriarchal “God” of separation and how cults built around it perpetuate horrors on men and women both, but especially women. So thankful for the brilliant poets like you, revealing truth whether it’s joyous or disgusting.

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sonja ringo's avatar

you worded it so perfectly!! god of separation is right.. thank you for your insights here, your readership, i adore u <3

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small victories's avatar

Goddamn hell fucking yes. I love this.

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sonja ringo's avatar

THANK YOU ahhh i appreciate you so much. means a lot to me <3

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Ken LéMarchand's avatar

Hot take: if folks don't want a child brought into this world, don't mess around to where it is a possibility. (This is based on normal circumstances only).

That said, common sense should dictate this kind of thing, not laws. No politics. No religion.

Great poem though!

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sonja ringo's avatar

practising abstinence if you don’t want kids/only having sex when u want a baby (as someone who enjoys sex but also doesn’t want kids).. seems unrealistic. birth control sadly is not always 100% effective but it is close

But yeah! the main point of the poem is exactly what you said - no politics and laws and especially religion re: a woman’s body 🙏🏼

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Brian Cummings's avatar

Great line: "Do not stand in your castle and plot against it"

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sonja ringo's avatar

Thank you so much! The imagery of that part felt just right 🤍💫🫶🏼

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Sarina Zoe's avatar

YES!

Know thy place is not near or of my body and fuck off 🔥

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sonja ringo's avatar

Exactly this!!! Thou shalt fuck off ahahaa praise be

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Sarina Zoe's avatar

🙌🏽😆

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sonja ringo's avatar

oh my heart!! thank you so much Annie. this means the world to me!

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