"Fragments Of A Whole"

"Fragments Of A Whole"

Khatoon Hazara ||| 1:30pm ||| Color: Purple ||| 12 pt. font ||| Corbel

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I can say so much

I can hoist up my pants, squat in the middle of the dirt and tell you a novel

I can plow dirt and plant seeds that grow into bushels of trees, I can rest on the back of a camel and watch the sky rise and fall

I can draw my veins on the back of my hand and trace my bloodline back a thousand years; I can shovel the dirt from the hurt and tell you the blood elements that make up who I am

I can show you images of  little girls getting married and barely 16 year olds getting ready to

I can show you two people, one holding her son and the other, her age, just married 

I can show you hungry eyes and pained smiles

I can show you trophies filled with collected, compressed tears

I can take you to the graves of my bearers' parents; and theirs before them, and theirs before them...

I can show you pages of print, written in the blood and tears of all those that came before us

I am living proof this is

But do you know what else I am living proof of?

Change.

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