Sabina Nessa
Location on
Friends aware
“Text me when you get home’’
Trainers to run
Keys grasped between my knuckles
The whites begging for mercy
I always have a busy route planned home
Eyes down
Hair tucked into my hoodie
Watch your drink
Keep your girlfriends close
Ignore them
Smile
So they leave you alone
‘’I have a boyfriend’’
‘’I said no’’
Catcalled from ten years old
Groping and grabbing
Incessant
Rape jokes
Slut shaming
Possesive
Obsessive
Stalking
Predators
They are all around us
They make up the world
Men - do better
Open up a conversation
Check your boys
Stand up for what is right
Act in the face of the misogynistic
If not all sharks
We are still terrified at any potential bite
Women have been conditioned to violence and fear
At the hands of those
Who would not be here
If a womb had not hugged them to life
Stretched and bled
Risking her life
To shed
Men
All she wanted was to walk alone
Nasha Solim is a pharmacist and writer, working in London. Nasha was previously a music TV journalist. She has also previously worked as a youth worker, working with disadvantaged youth in London. She is first generation in the U.K. She is the child of Bengali immigrants and was born and raised in London. She is an avid traveller. Her varied experiences have inspired her debut poetry/prose collection. Writing as varied as the Quran, A. Helwa, Rumi, Khaled Hosseini, Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak, Rupi Kaur, Tupac, Santan Dave, Eminem and Lauryn Hill have all inspired her work. But she believes that the biggest inspiration is life herself. She is a social activist and is passionate about social change, politics and equity. She currently resides in her birthplace.
She is publishing her first poetry collection with Arkfound. https://arkbound.com/ She is raising funds to publish this collection. Please see her Instagram @nashnashz and the link provided for Arkfound to fund her books publication if you are interested in her work! https://crowdbound.org/product/the-shadow-of-my-ancestral-tree/