The Feminine

Posted by Vikram Sihag On Jun 1, 2013 0 comments

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
                                                          Ani DiFranco
I am  a woman and I love being evil,
for you that would be akin to saying that god rapes humans.
Yet why can't I live just like a human?
my identity is not bound to my genitals,
why if I want to enjoy life and want to live it my way,
you deem me corrupted and mark me a whore?
You made my whole life an exercise of justification,
for I am just a mother and a mother can do no wrong.
why if I ain't a mother can't I be the ideal one?
you can bury your emasculated idealism deep with your idols,
I want to live my life for myself and not for your sermonic texts.
For some even my existence is a vice,
impotent prophets and monks clubbing me with wine.
Those who find controlling the liquid in a bottle an ordeal,
how dream they of controlling a human and that too a woman?
Who are you to chain and tame me like animals?
I am free to serve my existence the way I want to,
and for that I don't need your certification and verification.
I don't need your devotion your supplication ,
nor your decree to procreate just creation.
If I can create why can't I enjoy what I create?
If I can write verses of life on the sands of time,
who are you to stop me from rubbing them out on momentary whim?
Nor do I need your metaphors of moons and roses,
chaining me in corsets of hunger for your poems and proses.
Who gave you the right to appreciate me in the form you want me to?
You'll have to learn to see my beauty the way I want you to.
You can keep your divinity and I will keep my mortality.
 

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