Imagine
my death,
every reminder of my assassination
would hurt the blood
in
your stupid hands,
I will make
sound
with all that
blood
noise the night, until the country
invents a new condition
of weather, where clouds
the shape of Pakistan
are not as high and out of reach
as a girls education -
as a girls education -
every
woman
under this
sky will begin to rise -
my voice will shoot every bolt
of my pain
to un-secret my death. When it rains
it is the sound of my bones
bursting
and
the sky turning
grey and
cold as your bullet in my face,
and the dirt in the black ground growing
teeth
and you will be sorry to take
away the life of books
and the
life of me,
a
little girl who just wanted school.
You should have kept the blood
warm in my feet,
if you did not want me to carry my story
across the desert the border
the ocean
as a book you cannot burn.
great poem, what made you chose this form?
ReplyDeleteIt's the shape of the country as it appears on the map.
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