Free-choice?

Let me hear your shock
at my  heinous silence

Yes, I am your biggest sympathizer
I am to blame
for what you do is not
the brunt of what I bear                                

I can be furious
and blindly loyal to
your book


then they say that I don't have free-choice
that I am indoctrinated into
misogyny that I fail to
locate in my world


What rubbish!
I have freedom to choose
to make from all the stories
they narrate for me.

Stories they think are
worthless  lies
are actually my little disputed truths
for which I'm ready to sacrifice
my very existence.


Zeeba T. Hashmi

Lahore,
25th December, 2012