A World To A Feminist Poem by Atef Ayadi

Take off
Your feminine shell
And talk to me.

Man to man,
Lesbian to lesbian,
Gay to gay,
Cow to cow,
In between, or whatever is shaped in your head.

It does not really matter!

Take off that shell,
It is fair that way!
Put it back
When you are in your private sanctuary,
Or when you feel you need to
Be purely woman.

Have you ever seen
A mixed up seasons
Where a tree
Is
Naked in the middle of summer
And sleeping in the middle of the spring?
Well,
That is a tropical woman
And you are not that tree yet.

Have you ever seen
Yellow leaves,
Green leaves- young, refreshed, cleaned with moisture and droplets of water, -
And bulbs switching positions and swinging between the branches
Of the same tree

Or between one tree an its neighbors
Trees?

That is not your case yet!

Until then,
Put off your feminine shell away, and
Hide it;
So, I will not smell it,
And it will not turn my bull on,
Then,
We will start the binary discussion
Again.
On an on
A discussion that lacks
Legs and toes.

If you do not agree
We still
Can consider
A crochet
Session or a knitting session;
We will work on the same
Canvas
With same balls of yarn.
Chose your own
Needles;
I always have mine with me.
Let see if we can use up
All the balls of yarn
And end up at the same knit.