THE HOUSE OF WORTH

What is worth…?

 And what is worthy…?

 Is it what society teaches us…?

We invite you to reflect on what worth truly is, starting from this very moving poem we discovered accidentally, on Facebook.

It was written by an Egyptian woman.

It is a deeply felt feminism here, legitimized by the strict conditions of her culture.

It is a cry against the violence of a masculinity that ravishes woman and earth alike.

It is a cry against hypocrisy.

It is a cry against paternalism and patriarchal arrogance.

It is A CRY FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life beyond the hymen.

Life beyond the restrictive guiding marks of the powerful.

Life for the blade of grass, refusing to tremble in the shadow of the big warrior “trees.”

Life for the vulnerable, reclaiming rights often crushed by the kings of this world.

Please read this poem and please imagine a TRUE

HOUSE OF WORTH.

There's Life beyond the Hymen

by Heba Habib

 My worth is not a few inches of skin

that I may have never had

My worth is not who I have let in

or who I have kept outside me

My Worth is not the  moment of your satisfaction

My Worth is not bleeding enough

to paint the flags of your fake victory

so your like can go out

and conquer more bodies with shame

My Worth is not being your daughter

or his wife

or anyone’s anything

My worth is not restraint to satisfy

your ego & your hypocrisy

My Worth is not waiting for the correct amount of time

My worth is not weighed in your Gold

I will not eat my heart for you

it floats in me

Pale & as light as a feather

Only the sky binds me

Only eyes you cannot know

You who only see the worth

of fists & cages

My Worth is more than anything

you can conceive

you who measure in blood

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