Woman brought us to the Earth,
but man will take us out;
ruled by ego and insecurities,
he shoots before he shouts.
The fourth world war will be fought
with sticks and stones, like in the past:
for the third will annihilate our home,
with one single blast.
If women ruled today,
we would still have our humanity,
instead of this endless rage,
that is often coupled with
unadulterated insanity.
Accident-prone yet bulletproof, resilience courses through my veins. After plucking out the shrapnel from my own Hell-Bent self-destruction, all I was left with was me. Through embracing my darkness, I found the light. Here lie a sordid collection of POETRY, PROSE, AND REFLECTIONS on the traumas & triumphs along the way.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Aurat.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Virulent.
As the first fleecy snowflakes fall to the ground,
then disappear, in winter,
it floats through the skies on the gentlest breeze,
as quiet as a whisper.
Blink and you will miss it—it is smaller than a sliver.
Delicate as crystal and nearly twice as brittle,
one misstep and it will shatter;
decorating the ground like shrapnel.
Feeble as a fleece slipper
sliding across a cotton floor;
it has become as frail as origami
then disappear, in winter,
it floats through the skies on the gentlest breeze,
as quiet as a whisper.
Blink and you will miss it—it is smaller than a sliver.
Delicate as crystal and nearly twice as brittle,
one misstep and it will shatter;
decorating the ground like shrapnel.
Feeble as a fleece slipper
sliding across a cotton floor;
it has become as frail as origami
made of candy floss, sold by the seashore.
Programmed to roar although
all it can muster is a single pathetic mew,
striving to be bold
but it is only the lightest hues.
Dainty like the breaking dawn
and its glistening, gossamer dew,
it secretly dreams of being steel
but is soft as stained glass over pews.
Society is to blame
for this fragile masculinity,
that brainwashes boys into
becoming men who are afraid to feel.
This misunderstood manliness
is more timid than the shrew,
as it tells males their ideas
are best expressed through abuse.
"Boys don't cry," we're told,
encouraging us to be aggressive,
until our repressed emotions return,
with a vengeance, as depression.
Being masculine is not
the opposite of being feminine,
all it takes to be a man
is to simply identify as one.
Unless we refuse to accept their opinions,
nothing can ever change.
We must rally together and reject
their toxic masculinity that reigns.
Programmed to roar although
all it can muster is a single pathetic mew,
striving to be bold
but it is only the lightest hues.
Dainty like the breaking dawn
and its glistening, gossamer dew,
it secretly dreams of being steel
but is soft as stained glass over pews.
Society is to blame
for this fragile masculinity,
that brainwashes boys into
becoming men who are afraid to feel.
This misunderstood manliness
is more timid than the shrew,
as it tells males their ideas
are best expressed through abuse.
"Boys don't cry," we're told,
encouraging us to be aggressive,
until our repressed emotions return,
with a vengeance, as depression.
Being masculine is not
the opposite of being feminine,
all it takes to be a man
is to simply identify as one.
Unless we refuse to accept their opinions,
nothing can ever change.
We must rally together and reject
their toxic masculinity that reigns.
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