"You won’t allow me to go to school. I won’t become a doctor. Remember this: One day you will be..."

“You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:
One day you will be sick.”

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Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl 

This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their feelings about love (considered blasphemous).

Here’s the link

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