Family (poem)

Poetry

Atomistic nucleus,
Sealed tight against the world.
Cultivate a cult,
Paternal god as its leader.

Inculcate your values,
Carve impressions in minds.
Tear down and build up,
Constructed in your image.

Birthed out to the world,
Foreign figures encroaching.
Defending the village,
Against invasions of thought.

The entire world,
Our household.
Every living being,
Our family.

Body (poem)

Poetry

What is my body,
But a colonial land?
Rape and rob,
Take and exploit.

Your seeds won’t grow,
In my soil.
I’ll never bloom,
How you want me to.

Steal what’s not yours,
Pay no reparations.
Fill your gilded chambers,
With my intimate treasures.

Tear my flesh,
Break my bones.
Build me into a castle.
I’m just raw materials for construction.