validate...

i have come to learn 
that men need to feel
needed,
as though the 
hunter gatherer bloodline
did not die with their 
ancestors long ago.

but the blood singing through
my veins echo the gutteral war-cries
of the ancestral women who
aided in my creation,

the warrior goddesses who
longed for the hunt and
enjoyed the companionship
of men at times,
but who never needed a man to validate their existence.