Poems Woman Scream 2015 India Patna

Woman Scream 2015 coordinated at Patna in India by the poetess ImanKSingh 

ImanKSingh

 The Whimsical Female Egg! 

A world where I can take birth

And I will not be killed in the womb

Or dumped into a dumpster

Or just thrown like that on the pile of waste on the road

Where my limbs will be pulled by street dogs

Or I would be given salt to burn my intestines

Or buried alive

Or put on a shelf to roll and die

Give me a house, where I can also eat what my brother eats and not his leftovers

Where I can also play and go to school and not forced into labor when I should study

Where I can also drink milk and become strong like my brother

Where I can also play cricket and football

Where I can also play with cars and dolls and guns

Where I am not forced to hide under walls and clothes and traditions

Where I can ride the big cycle and feel the sun and dance in the rain

Where I can dream to be an astronaut, a pilot ,an engineer

Where I can play as long as I want

And go as far as I can

And swim in as many ponds as there are

Where I am not kidnapped and abused and raped and killed and burnt

Where my father and brother are not my destroyers, who do not fight me but with me

Where I can dream, I can fly and I can wonder

To such a place, such a home ,such a world

I wish to be born

Otherwise mother I refuse to be born

I am happy the way I am

I just may remain an egg

And one day I will be flushed out of your body as blood

But till then at least

I will have my dream, my hope, my fantasy

Of such a world where I wish to be born!

Nakedness

Just because you’ve touched me,

Should I feel maligned?

Just because you’ve mocked at me

Should I feel I’ve nowhere to go?

Just because you’ve looked down upon me,

Should I feel embarrassed?

Just because you’ve outraged my modesty,

Should I feel ashamed?

Just because you are YOU, and I am me

Should I feel low?

Hell NO!

When I undressed myself

You loved.

When I disclosed my thoughts

You mocked.

When I revealed my feelings

You exposed.