Where I Was Born- How Does It Matter

I define myself by my choices and actions.

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(1)

‘Life is unfair’ I felt,

‘You matter’ I knew,

Yet my name defined me not,

It was a disputed valley where I grew.

(2)

Some called me fortunate-

When I felt like a caged bird,

For how long I could answer,

When there was a limit in it too.

(This stanza is irregular like my life was)

(3)

So I chose to define myself,

Not by my birth place nor by something else,

I said I’m Tehniat who chose to be a writer,

I said I’m a girl who chose to shine brighter.

(My name Tehniat means glad tidings, so I link it to myself)

to be continued…

Although poetry is said to be magical, a way to vent out emotions among many other things. For me, it is my record. It records my history, my present, and the upcoming future. It is the way I can find myself and see myself from my own eyes, to strip out of identities others gave me.

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