Alicia is a badass horror writer and also a kind amazing person who happens to be one of my paid subs. So you know the drill: paid subs gets custom songs, poems and undying gratitude.
I asked Alicia what she’d like for hers and she wanted to spread some love to Lilith which was amazing cause I happened to already be obsessed with her. If you don’t already know Lilith was the precursor to Eve who got deemed a monster cause she wouldn’t lay under Adam. More smack talk followed in the bible. It was a thing.
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Ballad above. Poem below. Epic bitches all round.
Lilith
They called her a demon,
a monster, the original witch,
sure, getting exiled irks you,
but names can’t hurt you,
when you’re the first epic bitch.
The men wrote Lilith’s story,
stripped her of her former glory,
replaced her with Eve,
tailor-made to receive,
no questions asked,
Adam’s willing right half.
Or at least that’s what bibles contorted,
the truth so greatly distorted,
Lilith wasn’t equal to Adam,
never created to love him.
Adam pushed her below him,
And Lilith rose right up above him.
Lilith did not defame God,
She just went and named God,
Lilith did not flee from Eden,
She simply flew away,
Wings like an angel,
Not a falling, but a calling,
for all the women to come,
on their own terms.
Lilith was not made to please,
Lilith left men on their knees,
Lilith was not meant to tame,
Lilith has no space for shame,
She did not lay with the beasts,
Or steal babies from beds,
Lilith protected the weak,
she filled bad men with dread,
Rumors are made to break women,
But Lilith was stronger than hell,
She knew the witches would find her,
and the true story they’d tell,
The angels did not try to tame her,
they tried to put her in a cage,
Lilith did not give up willingly,
She fought back in a rage,
Lilith was made to defy,
she didn’t shrink or comply,
Just sprouted wings
and flied high in the sky,
Lilith was the stuff of legend,
Lilith was the stuff of lies,
Lilith is always what happens,
when women are seen through men’s eyes,
But now that you know the real tale,
tell every women who’ll hear it,
Now that you know her real name,
tell every man he should fear it.
Lilith was queen of the night,
Lilith was an angel of flight,
Lilith was a rebel with claws,
Lilith was lawless, Lilith was flawless,
Lilith was a mother of many,
Lilith did not need to seduce,
Lilith cannot be reduced.
No Lilith lives on in the witches,
Lilith lives on in the dances,
Lilith lives in the chants,
in powers that cannot be taken,
in a will that cannot be shaken.
Help Me Burn It All Down
Continuing on the topic of witches and burning down the patriarchy and maybe the system at large, I revisited my corporate witch hunt musical with actual music this time.
Felt like the same vibe and badass bitchery.
Sharing here because I really want to stage it and need financial support and partners to do so.
Burn, Burn from Goodys and Baddies
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this was EPIC!
Gahh I was so happy to see this! I love her and I been feeling her energy rise. Super exciting to see her speaking through you!