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He Holds All Hands But Mine










Supporting weight
of careless strangers,

masculine pamperings;
feminity merely
behind

such prejudice,
even with blood.





























Author notes

A reflection on favourtism for 'boy's rather then girls. Before the advent of Islam in Arabia, the people used to hide from the neighbours if the child was a girl and she was always buried alive there and then at her birth.

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  • Lavender Butterfly
    November 5, 2007
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    How immensely creative and deeply engaging... x


  • crimsondew
    November 4, 2007
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    A poignant approach ...like it for perhaps favouritism still exists out...
    All the best!