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Literary: Our Rightful Place

5/17/2017 09:00:00 PM Media Center 0 Comments

apparently,
women are blessed
with the privilege to tread
savage paths tamed
by manly and macho men,
that we are dainty damsels –
fussy, feeble, fragile, frail
everything that’s not
to be identified with the
glorious capable men.

apparently,
we are lesser beings
incapable of taming
our own savage paths
whose only consolation
is to be set up right under
the pedestal of our fathers
and sons and husbands
whose images we glorify
by the ladylike graces
our womanhood exudes
as if we are prized possessions
thanks to our extolled graces
as if our identity
can never go beyond
this wretched femininity

and we laugh at your faces
as we step on the ideals
you’ve long locked us in.
watch us crush mountains
of your vile prejudices
for here lies in our wombs
a universe infinitely more virtuous
than this one ruled
by wild and primitive beasts

but don’t you worry
our wombs
shall not bear to rule.
we come in peace
to reclaim our throne
long corrupted and defamed
but is now finding its way
back to its rightful place –
beside you.