| Poetry By candle light Poet: Rus Ervin Funk - These candles we do light
- to show our commitment to continue the fight
- to ensure you will always have the right
- to be free from the fear of men's violence.
- It was on a night just as this
- a gunshot shattered your marital bliss
- killed by the man who shared your first kiss
- yet another victim of men's violence.
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- There are others too whose lives ended thus
- men who they loved who shattered their trust
- they lost their dominion so their love was a bust
- one more perp of men's violence.
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- Another death another shedding of tears
- remembering the killings all through the years
- we stare our promise through the cheers and the jeers
- to put a stop to men's violence.
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- Women and children and men are all killed
- the promise of life not allowed to be filled
- a travesty of justice that must be revealed
- all different forms of men's violence.
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- So together we stand to shoulder our trust
- ending men's violence is nothing less than a must
- from the breaking of dawn to the last rays of dust
- we WILL put and end to men's violence.
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- 1998 Rus Ervin Funk
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