poems-of-madness:

“Draw me a kingdom
where I am not the only woman with a monumental heart. Where I meet other women eaten by their temper. Women who don’t write poetry
anymore, who cut their hair shorter,
and closed their legs together.
I am not the only kind woman;
women with souls like doves,
women with tired hands, women with half sold minds. I know such women,
I can be such a woman. I know it is a cliche to cry in the shower but we did. Give me women
in my kingdom,
I want to hear their moans,
I want to heal their wounds.
Lovely women,
intellectual women,
hurt women,
half loved women, sacrificed women. I know brilliant women,
the softest of women and the toughest. Draw me a kingdom with all these women and keep them coming. Amen.”

— Women from The Immigration Series by Royla Asghar