By Latoya Ferns-Advani
I am not a woman, I am a victim
I am proud of the vision eyes hold
I agree to sell out under duress
Silence passions for a lasting caress
I am not a woman, I am an actress
I shy away from the penis I hold
I pretend its shameful, not the pain
Of giving in and not seeing you again
I am not a woman, I am honour
I am allure constrained by tradition
I fear happily-ever-afters delicate
And to unbroken hymens connected
I am not a woman, I am complicit
I am my own deficit of power
I assume submission, ask permission
To be your equal like its your decision
I am a victim actress in honour complicit
A moral schizophrenic, a veiled, glorified whore
The system abhors both my sisters and me
Yet I am another proud mother of patriarchy
