a muslim woman
begs on the graveyard of a mound
around her mocking her despair
dead laughter surrounds
ghosts spirits her living death
astound
a few coins in her hand
deathly silence no sound
covering her beggary
her shame
born as a Muslim Woman
by other moving men and women
frowned
she in her hijab
her winding sheet
buried live above ground
we are building
masjids madarsaas
womens home childrens home
homlessness no home [...]

baba ek paise ka sawal hai
moutaj hoon
musalman hoon
badkismati ka yeh hal hai
zindagi bediyon se bandhi
jeena janjal hai
khuda ka khayal hai
alam behaal hai
sir give me a coin or two
my tears soaked in a
dry tissue
no hope no avenue
womanly woes
my residue
shadows that i pursue
to move away from
this heartless world
i wait in a queue
a woman is a woman
its true
a [...]

poverty stricken
muslim woman
in islam
a raw deal
she is a living dead
they see but dont feel
she will beg
but wont borrow or steal
she is far too genteel
like an onion tears unpeel
friday namaz the peshimam the mullah
all spiritual candy floss and spiel
while the poor muslim woman
hand stretched begs for a meal
blood that on her soul congeals
muslim woman is always [...]

muslim woman
her future bleak
imprisoned
in the flesh
of her hijab
her self respect
as a woman
her dignity seek
male dominated
oppression
so to speak
where her voice
re echoes
a spineless squeak
muslim woman
a piece of
immovable furniture
antique
the mullah
her main critique
muslim woman
more dead than alive
a thought oblique
hit on one side
she offers
the other cheek
muslim woman
just wont shriek
in a muslim society
at its peak
muslim woman
a component
unique
a choked
river
on a dead creek
picture [...]

marrriage is a social farce
mans legal right to womanize
called holy testament
simply rape legtimized
if she does not bring dowry
humiliate dishonor tyrannize
a woman is bonded labor
one time use several time abuse
merchandise
man with his lust will demonize
produce harvest dehumanize
thus made mother
on one day in her memory
as mothers day
internationalize
futility of sinister lies
brutalize
terrorize
mother beneath her feet
lies paradise
with sufferings pain
you tranquilize
i [...]

SITTING WAITING IN A QUEUE
INVOKING YOUR NAME
FOR A COIN OR TWO
SOME SEE US AND SHOO
SOME HARD RUDE WORDS SPEW
HUMAN HEARTS HAVE BECOME HARD
ITS TRUE
MANGLED HOPES
STRANGLED HOPES
NOTHING NEW
THOUGH A
HEALING TOUCH
IS OVERDUE
May 14th, 2007
Categories: muslim woman, firoze shakir, My Poems

covered in our
religions
protective armour
the hijab from head to toe
my face my body
my shame
I need not show
yes I am a muslim
muslim woman
is all that you
need to know
in a muslim mans world
the laws of a muslim man
how can a woman
overthrow
the mullah was made
by god to protect
the rights of man
although
he was born of a woman
a mother that his [...]

those bearded ulemas
protecting the
muslim masculine
rights of our race
fatwas after fatwas
a muslim womens life deface
she will soon drown
before she can surface
our religion is beautiful
but a womans life a sham
a controversy a disgrace
i will sound like a shia
if i mention bibi fatima
bibi zainab bibi sakina
as my theories base
women in Islam
over the centuries
maligned misused
in silence all torture
did brace
some [...]

Is she a Shia woman
Is she a Sunni woman
Did I need to ask her
Who is she ?
A Womans bane
That she is a woman
In a sectarian Islam
A Muslims woman’s
Universal pain
A male dominated
A mullah dominated
Society
To which she is chained
A pain from time immemorial
Self contained
Her Hijab her vulnerability
Her protective armour
Uncomplained
On the roads
Begging life unsustained
Ya Allah
Ya Maulah mushkil kusha
laailaha [...]