On “The Tone-Up” TMWT’s Spotlight Editor, Assia Hamdi, shares a very powerful poem; Her-Story and Her, to Celebrate International Women’s Day and Choose to Challenge the Status Quo,
Her-Story and Her
What a way to
Drown out the her-stories of History.
How they
Deemed her legacies unworthy,
Then they
Severed the lineages of our identity.
And they
Removed our communities agency.
They say
To know your future you must know your past.
Hence I say
They Can never
Wash away the innate
intuitions that connect us through time and space.
They Can never
Submerge the cries and powerful voices of our past and present.
They Can never
Smirch the lineage of oral and literary tales.
They Can never
Sever the secret language that binds us.
They Can never
Bury the existence of female greatness.
They Can never
Drown out the truth of her-stories.
They Can never
Block the dazzling legacies
that live through the fibre of our very souls and bodies.
For commentaries on this poem, visit our Instagram Story to watch Assia Hamdi’s Takeover of our Instagram page where she recites the poem and talks about the inspiration behind it.
