Wednesday

Take My Hands




Take My Hands
by Norwan

Where can I talk?
Where can I tell my untold stories?
              Where
              Where
              Where
I speak from under my burqa
I am not allowed to speak aloud
I am an Afghan woman
I breathe poisons.
I am not allowed to breathe the fresh air you breathe
I look outside the window of my burqa
It seems as if there is
No hope
No light
I see nothing but hopeless dreams
I see nothing but
            Darkness
            Darkness
            Darkness
It seems as if the doors of victory are closed
            Locked
            Locked
            Locked
There is no door in the jungle of wild thought.
I want a light to see my way
I want nothing else but
to live the way I want to live
to live the way I deserve.
I want to release myself
From the prison of a voiceless land.
From the tribe of silent
            Dead
            Burned, women
Help me.
Take my hands.
It is not written in my destiny
To burn myself.
Can you hear me?
I am a voice of my dead silent generation
I speak from under my burqa
I am not allowed to speak aloud
            Where can I talk?
            Where can I tell my untold stories?
Where can I buy a light?


Pabot, Susannah E., comp. The Sky Is a Nest of Swallows. First ed. Belleville, 2012.
Afghan Women Writer's Project: http://awwproject.org/
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2 comments:

  1. Beautiful. You can feel the despair and desperation to get out.

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    1. Thank you, Debra! Yes, the feelings are so haunting aren't they? The more I read by them, the more amazed I am!

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