I Am A Girl

I was made to quit glancing at the mirror

As culture discriminated my

Physique, equity, and pedagogy

I wonder what misstep I took as I born

They controlled my mind, my body, my future.

I felt like an erratic puppet made

In a factory

Suppressed near the rummage.

It tormented my soul

My eyes cried in red

My heart lent pain on every pulse

It was an abyss in the name of culture.

It has to be my death, I thought

But this life is to live once

It's not me that should be buried

But the so-called culture

Hence,

I chose to break the culture

I saw my impression in the mirror

Ah! It was the morale

Where a girl can lead anything if

An opportunity is given.

 

I broke the chain that

attached me to the culture

Now I am a girl who is

chubby yet elegant

Modern yet ancient

Scholarly yet believer

Poet yet entrepreneur.