Celebrating # WorldPoetryDay @ Spears Media with Lola Perpetua Nkamanyang
The Language of Breasts and Beards
(From Poetry book collection, Healing Stings, 2016)
Pepertua K. N. LOLA
It doesn’t matter
Whether beards, whether breasts
Equality we seek
Equal access for all. It doesn’t matter
Whether trousers, whether skirts
Liberation we seek
Equal access for all. It doesn’t matter
Whether office, whether home
The tempests abating
Boundaries are banished. It doesn’t matter
Whether…
