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The Empress Always Lies

For the truth would surely murder her.

By Hope MartinPublished 8 months ago Updated 8 months ago 4 min read
The Empress Always Lies
Photo by Knight Duong on Unsplash

Back in the day of old monarchs on thrones,

In the days of Isabella of France,

Christin De Pizan or even Eleanor of Aquitaine,

Women were tools and weapons of political advantage.

Trapped in marriages to terrible men who only wanted their wealth.

And hung right along with their husband, should he commit a crime.

In Asian culture, concubines were strangled and deposed.

Convenient sex toys until they said one wrong thing,

to be flogged to death in public,

ordered to bear the royal children -

and then be punished by murder if their child breathed too loudly.

I was once a proud American girl, living in a free world.

But now I know how gullible a child can be, for I was one once.

I understand now that my country is deceptive,

from the education to the moral structure.

It's all a lie and an illusion.

We are going backwards in time, drifting to a place

when women could be accused of witchcraft and then publicaly burned.

We are going back towards a time when women shoved hangers and knives

into their bodies to save their own lives when something goes wrong.

We are going back... back... back... in time.

Back in time we go, our freedoms and liberties disappearing -

In almost the same order in which we gained them.

There are no freedoms really, just the idea that we have it.

And our citizens are ignorant because America only acknowledges itself.

They do not teach WORLD history - and if they do it's so vague.

Always in an attempt to paint our country as great -

a supervillian painted as a hero in history always - LIES.

They do not teach about the white slave trade that still exists to this day,

because how else would they keep the Black population under control,

in the exact mood the government wants them in - hating and dividing.

If they do not make them think they are THE representation of slaves-

They might stop fighting and hating everyone else -

Then the people would stand United - and GOD FORBID THAT HAPPEN.

They do not explain that most immigrants who came here looking for

"The American Dream" ended up dead in the streets or starving in alleys,

They do not explain the main vein of America -

The vein that bleeds and bleeds and what it bleeds is HATE.

They do not teach the truth of what happened to the Natives

when that DEMON of a man named Christopher Columbus came,

and opened the door to a future of extermination and suffering.

They don't talk about how they raped the women and gutted our children.

And they made our husbands and fathers watch - because they valued us.

Then they cut off their heads too, but only after they suffered,

and forced to bathe in the crimson spill from the necks -

To watch the life leave the eyes of their lovers and offspring.

They celebrate Christopher and even still to this very day -

Americans celebrate the bloodshed of thousands of humans

and reassure themselves that those savages didn't deserve this land.

MAGA cultists convince themselves of each and every DELUSION.

THEY "founded" this country - they are too ignorant to know they are wrong.

And now they are here to take the country back and restore it-

to its bloodiest and most terrible origin of violence and terror.

They make the Trail of Tears sound like a long, nice, enjoyable walk.

There are even some states that teach their children that my people-

Willingly moved away just so the white people could have a place.

They do not talk about how the white French trappers came to our land,

and we gave them our maidens! We gave them wives!

And they would rape them, murder them, and then scalp them for

their long, beautiful hair to make opium bags to send back to Eurpe.

They would put their ovaries hanging on their guns - a bloody trophy.

They do not teach The Truth About Thanksgiving - They only know the LIE

And do not get me started on established religion in the United States.

Stealing holidays and claiming them for their own.

Each Christian who lets their children hunt for Easter eggs,

or those who hang a star from their decorated pine tree -

They are all so ignorant that barely any of them even register that

they are participating in Pagan rituals meant to strengthen wild Gods.

Manipulating Pagan holidays to convince scared individuals to convert.

Christians preach about the loving God who accepts and loves and forgives-

And yet they MURDER and SLAUGHTER in his name REPEATEDLY.

Corrupted Vessels of Greed using God to spread hate and division.

To brainwash weak-minded people into hating others who are different.

Using God as a shield for hate crime and violence, and HUBRIS

The American Government puts a fictional mythical creature -

NOT REAL HISTORY - NOT REAL PEOPLE

As the baseline of how people should be treated and respected.

Using a book of metaphircal stories on how to not be an asshole -

AS AN EXCUSE TO DO EVIL.

AS AN EXCUSE TO HATE OTHERS.

I am a woman- and I might be killed now for expressing this...

But America needs to burn into nothing but ash -

Then it needs to rise from the ashes anew -

And begin to teach History the way it's supposed to be taught.

So perhaps our children will not make the same mistakes.

Thanks for reading my contest entry!

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About the Creator

Hope Martin

Find my fantasy book "Memoirs of the In-Between" on Amazon in paperback, eBook, and hardback, in the Apple Store, or on the Campfire Reading app.

Follow the Memoirs Facebook age here!

I am a mother, a homesteader, and an abuse survivor.

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