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    Wonderful poetry collected and shared by Tony Johansen


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     It seems inconceivable that anyone would wish to harm such a gentle and defenceless symbol of sacrifice for love. Is it that she is so defenceless, so tragic, so beautiful that she invites those so lacking in respect for others, so arrogant, so self obsessed to commit atrocities against the child in all of us? If it were the fault of the statue for her very vulnerability could we then say that the most vulnerable women in society should expect therefore to be raped? The weak robbed? The small beaten and bullied? Surely the fault lies not with the Little Mermaid herself but a troubling vein in sections of Danish society that fails to see the abhorant nature of pillaging the symbols of innocence and dreams in this way. 

     It seems inconceivable that anyone would wish to harm such a gentle and defenceless symbol of sacrifice for love. Is it that she is so defenceless, so tragic, so beautiful that she invites those so lacking in respect for others, so arrogant, so self obsessed to commit atrocities against the child in all of us?

    If it were the fault of the statue for her very vulnerability could we then say that the most vulnerable women in society should expect therefore to be raped? The weak robbed? The small beaten and bullied?

    Surely the fault lies not with the Little Mermaid herself but a troubling vein in sections of Danish society that fails to see the abhorant nature of pillaging the symbols of innocence and dreams in this way.