Shame And Slavery Poem by Susan T. Aparejo

Shame?
Slavery?
Are the related?
Yes.
For if you are coated with shame,
You become slave of one's mind.
Your mind recoils you,
Even wakes you in your dream
Takes the accusing finger of
redicule, criticism and
longed for you death,
if you could not endure,
the humiliation of shame.

We can hold the shame,
we can hold its tongue to gobble us,
we can hold the pain
that emotionally grinding us,
we can hold every human being stares
But you can not hold your tears
when the one who put on shame on you
is no other than your SISTERS
AND YOUR VERY OWN MOTHER.