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  • Home > G for Gender > Gender Poems > The Grass is Really like me

    The Grass is Really like me
    by Kishwar Naheed

      The grass is also like me
      It has to unfurl underfoot to fulfil; itself
      But what does it prove by getting soaked:
      A scorching sense of shame
      Or the heat of emotion.

      The grass is also like me
      As soon as it can raise its head
      The lawnowner,
      Obsessed with flattering it into velvet
      Mows it down again.
      How you strive and endeavor
      To level woman down too!
      But neither the earth's nor woman's
      Desire to manifest life dies.
      Take my advice: the idea of making a footpath was appropriate
      Those who cannot bear the scorching defeat of courage
      Are grafted onto the earth.
      That's how make way for the mighty
      But they are merely straw
      Not the grass
      The grass is really like me.

     

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