womenwhothinkandspeak: My ripped jeans

NAPOWRIMO 21 Prompt 9 Radhakrishnan Krishnan

My Ripped Jeans

My jeans are a statement that I’m a human not a cow

And can skip and jump much higher than it’s silly fence

Be they ripped or snipped or studded with silver and gems

They’re my choice of dress, not an undress as made out by you men

I command Dreamliners across the world

Trans-Atlantic trans-Pacific and across the North Pole

While your vision is stuck on a patch of frayed threads

My vision transcends the skies, the stars and the moon

I’ve seen you balding old men staring through the necklines

At the ample cleavage of poor cleaning maids in saree

As they mop your dirty floors and bear your dirty looks

All for a pittance of a salary

Rather than mock decent ladies whatever they may wear

You better teach yourselves and your sons to revere

As you would your mother and sister and daughter if you had one

Which I know you’d try your best to kill in the womb

There are matters more important in this world to care about

This country that needs to be saved from within and without

Gentlemen if you’d be, give a thought to this

The earth and environment that’s caught in a crisis

There’s more worries on this planet than a woman’s ripped jeans

Radhakrishnan Krishnan Ampat Koshy Reena Prasad

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