This patriarchal society
keeps screaming
at me and these girls
keep pointing
accusing fingers
at my dignity
so where should
I hide
so that I am
RID OF THIS PATRIARCHY?
WHY DO THEY THINK
THAT THEY
CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT BUT I
MUST CONFORM TO THE NORMS
THEY DEEM ACCEPTABLE?
Where shall I hide so that I am
not forced to tend
to this quadruple burden?
For I am a humanitarian
but there is only
so
much I
can tolerate
after living in
an independent country
because I have learnt
my worth and though I
do not
express it,
I do
realize that
some things must not change,
not for selfish reasons
but so
that my self respect
and my self esteem
doesn't
crumble anymore
than it already has;
like the way the
sky falls into my arms so golden,
and the hue of this rain
is so luscious that my auburn caress
have swept
AWAY FROM THIS PATRIARCHY
to gaze at the stars which weep about my failure
and how such a pretty thing like me became so ugly after growing up.
YOU ARE READING
an abstract limn
Poésie❝ but this time i will not be lifted from the realms of this catastrophe, this time i will be dipped into the honeyed lox of this saccharine thought; drowning in the depths of the wilted tulips that have not ever to sprout. look at these alstroemeri...
