Hymen Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

By Freeyad Ibrahim


It is just a thin veil
May girls be killed
Without it,
Or they all sorts of disgrace
Must carry.
Veil as thin as the outer skin of the onion
In Islamic East no suspicious girl dares to marry
She should her emotions bury.
If she is sure she has lost her hymen,
By one reason or another
By one way or another is damaged,
and the causes are to vary.
Even if she becomes a bride,
she fails to enjoy the wedding night
from uncertainty,
her situation grows scary.
Her fate is decided this night
Penetrated or unpenetrated?
Damaged or undamaged?
Used or unused?
Consumed or unconsumed?
She wants by all means to get assured,
to do it in a hurry.
Her dowry price is equal to her Virginity
If she is not virgin,
she is equal to a rotten tomato
on the market, or spoiled blackberry.

Considerably depreciated
Otherwise, what does dowry mean?
Selling and buying!
Contemptuous dowry!

Girls in the Islamic East are treated
like a canned Sardine;
Once opened, no one will buy her!


Fryad Hugo