Watch the shaved head bare
Emaciated boobs
The big skull of the suckling infant
Dark leaden eyes with thick bushes of lashes
Dry tongue has sewn lips
Genitals mutilated
Figure still can haunt you in nights
Compound eloquence
You make me very small
On the scale of equilibrium
*On International Women's Day
Islamabad
9/3/2010
Sadiqullah Khan
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-african-woman/
