SLAVE QUEEN – ThE AgONy oF An ENslaVed wOmAN (Poem by a concerned sixteen-year-old)
Days, months and years
The times flying like the wind
And I became the woman I wanted to be
A full grown princess in my father’s house
Mother talked about a man
She said I will be a Queen in his house
I agreed soon enough and my problems agreed sooner
My parents were no longer allowed to see me
The neighbors heard sounds of talking drums from my body
I couldn’t leave the house
I was an unseen slave
I bled and cried daily
For this wasn’t the life I hoped for
After conceiving a football team
I’m pregnant again, pregnant with pains
Like an injured zebra
I am filled with stripes of beating everywhere
I’m just thirty but I am an old slave
My parents unknowingly sold me off into slavery
Never to gain independence
From the hands of a maniacal King
Queen? I am a slave Queen
Drenched in regrets and pain and tears
Always regretting
That I was ever born a woman
Onashile Blessing Joy (OBJ)
*** So I am super excited right now! My junior sister who is just sixteen wrote this poem and I just couldn't stop gushing over it. well i did a little bit of editing but it was entirely her idea, her works and mostly words too.
I am glad that her eyes are open to the issues women face and that she can connect to them and make a case for them. However, she is not going to be a lawyer like me, my baby is in love with medicine and humanitarian care.
please show this poem some love by your upvotes and comments and resteems!!
yes never to gain independence.
Babe, I'm seeing "sush" things in her already.
loool...abi ooo
She is a great writer. Please encourage her to focus on writing. Hope to see her on steemit soon
definitely she is a really awesome poet!!! thanks a whole lot!!
So much for a 16 year old
as in ehn...me sef i couldnt believe it when she showed me, i had to post it
Wooow! A sixteen year old girl wrote this? This is a sadonic and exasperating poem of how cruel and inhuman some men can be but at thesame time i would ask that you make sure your little sister joins steemit community. She is an amazing writer and steemit is desperately in need of people like her! Leave her career out of it just bring her in. Resteeming and upvoting this one.
Thank you so much... Still trying to figure out how to get hr in to also be committed
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