'Fixing Your Heart' by Spanish Graffiti artist Skount (Raul Garcia Pereira) via Zoe in Wonderland
The following poem was originally published in Gawaahi.com, a website documenting stories of abuse and survival across Pakistan.
How could she have explained
the black agony of repulsion,
the morbid dialectic
of oppression, or the heavy, sinking feeling
like a hot stone expanding and scorching
the wrinkled flesh
of her weakened heart?
With her innocence crushed,
cringing with fear
like a drooping lily robbed of the sun,
she had tasted beyond her years,
the murky depths
of a malefic mind.
Nauseous and empty,
the girl-child hounded by his lust,
had felt her entire life condensed
in a single,
tremulous tear.
Zaina Anwar 2011
How could she have explained
the black agony of repulsion,
the morbid dialectic
of oppression, or the heavy, sinking feeling
like a hot stone expanding and scorching
the wrinkled flesh
of her weakened heart?
With her innocence crushed,
cringing with fear
like a drooping lily robbed of the sun,
she had tasted beyond her years,
the murky depths
of a malefic mind.
Nauseous and empty,
the girl-child hounded by his lust,
had felt her entire life condensed
in a single,
tremulous tear.
Zaina Anwar 2011
4 comments:
Thanks for the poem, Zaina. Painful stuff. Also a really amazing image you provided.
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this is so uncomfortable..i cant express! it touches the heart..painfully..so many emotions rising. wonderful image too.
The last two lines just captured that suffocating oppression perfectly. Thank you for the poem.
Thank you, Demon Lily. I appreciate you dropping by :)
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