Her place was in a four-walled room called kitchen
Broken dishes were the order of the day
She had mastered the scents of the various nail breaking dish washing liquids she struggled with
every time she tried to scrub the dirt away
In this kitchen
She was brought down to the level of a dishwasher
Her competition being dishwashing liquids, sponges, water levels and sometimes she had to unblock mini drainages
In this kitchen she was just a chef
A master of recipes
Knowledgeable spice expert
Doctor of greasy areas
Floor scrubber
It was a full time job she could barely stay sober
Her opinions landed on kitchen counters
Her musical performances on pots and pans
Her creativity lowered to only determining the amount of salt and spices
Because in this kitchen her position was belittled
Value depreciated
Frustrated
Under rated
Future denigrated
Whoever gave her the deeds
To this place needs
To wake up to reality and realise that this was not her place
Somebody needed to see to it that this issue was addressed
Although a shallow minded man went ahead and named the kitchen her place
With pleasure she struggled to maintain sanity
In the place since she valued her priceless contribution
They could not see beyond the chores
Because this place meant magical happy meals to not only satiate hunger but to raise even a generation
You see her intentions were miscalculated
Her abilities even worse no-one put her into consideration
Still they, they thought she belonged not in a boardroom
Her specialty was cookery who said documentation lived in the same room?
You see her place was not at home
Battling crumbs
Nursing period flows and wiping blood off floors
Her place was not a home practicing selective hearing
Or being the Chief In administering first aid passing a band aid
to who needed it first
It was always a crusade
Her place was not to co-parent an adult whose parents
Had failed to teach real life lessons or beneficial mannerisms on how to co-exist
This one they handed to her and called him husband
Her place was not to seduce
Or in any way arouse or satisfy the sexual appetite of another human
To stay enslaved and answer morning glory calls or stand accused of the outcomes or reactions of the penis
Her place was not in a fellowship of women who taught her traditional scripture
Behaviourism or home management systems
Which were never approved in universities because they were just common myths and beliefs
Her place was not as a sex symbol
Bed warmer
Stress reliever or a horny man’s entertainer
Her body was not a museum of attractive statues for show
Because she carried inter connected parts
And at the end of the day inside of her there lived a heart
So yes sometimes she fought the wrong battles
Fought to keep her presence subtle
So they pretended not to understand
It was the best they could do as they could not stand
Her power
Her finesse
Her authority or her grace
Her ability to keep calm when it was raining rocks
Her ability to think through and foresee situations which was no joke
Her ability to multitask
Handle Child birth and come back fast
They feared bringing her into the boardroom as they couldn’t understand someone who could overthink
Someone who could battle a ship right at the verge of a sink
And her biggest mistake was to fight for equality
It defined stupidity
As women had already attained an unbeatable level of a superiority
Her place?
Her place was on pedestal
A million feet up on a throne of stone
So without feeling like an object pardon her as she gracefully reigns in an era
Where women aren’t tools but are people too
She is just unstoppable
She unbeatable
And oh as unadmittable as it seems
She is queen
And her place
Her place is on top.
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[Courtesy of the author]
Link to the Italian translation