You might know them as
legitimate combatants.
You might hear of them as
civilians killed during operation.
* * *
Soul windows of the black veils
say you do not overstand
The concept of No Attraction
* * *
As funds for planes
outweighed funds for meals,
a video played before me...
Showed some children
could not move
their malnourished limbs
as if they had lied down asking why
Why this - What have I done -
* * *
Forced to bow down to men
who show that they do not fear Allah,
catalysts for carried kitchen knives
Forced to open their legs
for the global penetration dagger
of covert grinning democracy
just to have rights to decision
in a dried up toppled nation,
dying from internal bleeding.
Water mission daughters of hunger,
stripped from their sacrificial mothers-
for a new blunder on the psyche
Marriage launched on the younger
* * *
Women dreaming to be translators
Taiz women of arms demonstrate
to avenge their mothers, fathers,
loved ones and protect established men
And young girls dream to be something
in the unforgiving world
where voices are heard
since there is never enough nerve
to stand against as one must,
enduring in order to eat.
* * *
Diaries capture hidden askings
of anything but homelessness
Told, they are beautiful
as strangers in their own land
How could one have fallen in love
more than falling to the ground
in the narrowest streets
because the world still cannot see
that this was the hardest of soil
to be a woman on, with a mind,
with a determination, with a cause.
You can place analysts,
operatives and air bases there
but no water to quench them all?
They can bring a future into society
but cannot be a full witness to shape it?
* * *
Cos' you force them! -
You force them.
You ignore them.
You forget them
with a breast cancer ribbon
half the world away,
ripe governmental denial
where reality wrecks a lemon orchard.
Where young girls face a judgement
for what a khat chewing rapist did,
and a day begins with abuse
and they pray in secrecy
mainly not ever being believed
not ever allowed to holler help
So what, in programs
they can temporarily benefit
To the leading women.
Take the taped paper
off of your mouths
so that you may succeed.
Warm smile, you refrained
from covering your face this day.
It irks more that my smile
can leave too soon;
Because you all must always
smell corruption as state secrets
when a gain is underway for you.
You would have to be rott,
holding up the arms of your sisters
being change in a moving museum.
* * *
Hani, the local convenient store
owner down the block asked.
'Rashad, you do not live there.
It is whole nother world, yes?
Why show the slightest concern
for these mass population of women?'
* * *
Well... Alas, in America
a designed man-gina isn't received.
I'm afraid that had they challenged
the discord of intelligence
which stamped American militarism
to forego endless conflicts;
portrayed as insurgents tops -
Beasts hype the proxy
So you know I'm not hypebeasting
It is that type of warfare
that has occurred all over history
to where it must be addressed.
* * *
Though you wonder
is it my place to
when I've been use to
economic polarization -
* * *
Now the national angel's breath
swells, to downplay
bonafide American exceptionalism
like another Pepe the frog pedo-smile.
* * *
While children play amongst rubble.
* * *
Spreading - that deep,,,
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Submission Name: "The Yemeni women", 2017
