ext_15716 ([identity profile] heartequals.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] be_compromised on July 14th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
In war time women turn to red
swivel-up scarlet and carmine
not in solidarity with spilt blood
but as a badge of beating hearts.

-- "Lipstick," Maggie Butt

Full poem here (http://war-poetry.livejournal.com/179515.html), warnings for...war? I guess, I'm not sure. Women civilians in war.
 
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