Ode To Victor Hugo(28) 'the Miserable' cossetta's Dolls Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

Like birds building nests
So wil children make dolls
Out whatever come to hand
Threadbare hats, torn balls
A doll is one of pressing needs
of feminisim childhood
To care for it, adorn it, dress it
Undress it, give it lessons,
Scold it a little, raise it above,
Then Let it fall.
Put it to bed, sing it to sleep
Beat it to weep..
As if it is a living person,
That squeaks, that squalls.
All the future of the woman,
resides this
Childhood feminism
desides this
Dreaming, murmuring, tending,
Cossetting, sewing small garments
Skirts, shirts, shawls.
The child grows into girlhood,
From girlhood into womanhood,
From womanhood into wifehood,
And the first baby is the sucessor
Of the first Dolls! !
A little girl without a doll
Is nearly as deprived
and as unnatural,
as woman without a child.
Both grow wild.
So Cossette made from
her broken things her Dolls!

Freyad Hugo
Heerenveen
August,2021