Koonj: Divorcee

A must read poem by Bajee Koonj for people wanting to understanding the situation of women in Pakistan. While, one would like to think that these problems are limited to the poor uneducated classes of Pakistan, that is totally not the case. The expectations placed on the shoulders of women in most cases ( specially after marriage) there are idealistic and unrealistic. Anyways, go ahead and read this poem:

Divorcee

Hi there.
What happened to you?
He broke your heart?
Took you for granted?
Hurt your feelings, left you? Degraded,
dehumanized, derided you?

He treated you like dirt?
What’s new?

It’s your own fault, you know that, right?
Did you provoke him?

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