For Women Who Are Difficult to Love - Written and performed by Warsan Shire You are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow seeking yours but you are always too intense frightening in the way you want him unashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your head and you tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do love split his head open? you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan has read her work internationally, including recent readings in South Africa, Italy and Germany, and her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In 2011, she released Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth, a short book of poems. In April 2013, Shire was presented with Brunel Universitys inaugural African Poetry Prize, an award earmarked for poets who have yet to publish a full-length poetry collection. She was chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. In October 2013, Shire was also selected from a shortlist of six young bards as the first Young Poet Laureate for London. You can follow her on Twitter at https://twitter/warsan_shire Sources: vimeo/38766162 and Wikipedia Poetic Sunday: If you are a sister poet with uplifting words for women and girls or if you have a piece that tells a story from a Black female’s point of view, please send it, along with a great photo and a link to your website, etc. (if you have one), to PoeticSunday@BrownGirlCollective. We would love to hear what you have to say! (Spoken word artists are welcome as well, just send a link to the video.)
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:21:29 +0000
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