Breaking Silence

Batool Idrish posted under Tale-a-thlon S4: Poetry on 2024-08-25



You will emerge, from that 

Trauma, disaster, pain, 

Negating death, negating rape,  negating wrong.

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Like the growing sun must

Emerge. Daughter, emerge,

Negating fate, negating rage, negating  gore!

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Like the raging sun must

Scald, burn, wield fire daughter- 

Undoing lust, undoing the unjust, undo!

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Let not unchecked tears flow.

Steel yourself, dear daughter, 

Wipe out all villainy! Wipe out atrocities!

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