@Peek_A_Boom funny. no seriously, give it a read if u would like!
i felt compelled to share this..
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Pandora's Box
There are days I feel
my womanhood is a burden.Days when I must be
conscious of what I wear
because I do not wish
to get unwanted attention.Days my breasts and my legs
don’t feel like they belong to me.Days I cannot look men in the eye
because I do not want them to get
the wrong idea about me.It’s because we are taught
from an early age
that we hold within our bodies
Pandora’s box.Something so dangerous
it does not just affect us,
it affects everyone we love,
and everything we care for.And we must guard it with strength,
with determination,
hiding ourselves from becoming
an object of lust and sexual appetite.Still, I cannot help but wonder
as often as I did as a child.
Why do we shame Pandora for opening the box,
when she simply did it out of curiosity?Shouldn’t we rather blame the person
who created a box
of such terrible power
as we should blame society
for making rules for our bodies
that we never agreed to,
nor wanted to be our philosophy?~ Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire, and Beauty | Nikita Gill
I just discovered Nikita Gill today.. 💛
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I love it. And it’s definitely something to think about.
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Sorry,I just wonder ,why there was a line"something so dangerous"?it didn't seem to fit with this whole idea.I hope somebody will just ,explain why?🙂
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@Max256 it goes back to Greek mythology to a girl named Pandora. She was given a box and told never to open it lest she unleash all the worlds evils. Even though she quickly closed the box only hope remained.
Thus in describing the female body and not being careful we can invite many evils upon us and others for our poor choices.
I hope that help explains it to you.
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@Wicked_ Oh,Thank you.🙂