YOU
Nana-Aisha Abdulkarim 2000 (Kano)
I see you rising from the fire
you're well acquainted with that heat
you're a diamond they admire
you're made like concrete
you are she, her, female and that queen
you are the beauty in look but don't touch
you are strength embodied in that part called heart
your skin's too thick for the bad man's bite
you're way too bright for the dark to drown that light
they try to keep you down
you're a threat too great
they burn you to ash
but you rise at any rate
you are phoenix
it is their destiny to learn the hard way
that they cannot keep you down
you are empowered, you are woman
About this poem
A poem for women, about women, by a woman. It hints at the resillient nature of women and how they rise from the low place of weakness and fragility that society has placed them in.
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Written on February 15, 2022
Submitted by nana_a on October 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCBDEFGGHIJIKLHM |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 114 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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