The Pink Ghetto
We blast- where is our empowerment?
Here at Bad Gal we cultivate contemporary
clothes
Vogues of rouge, summer stoppers, pink
rockers.
The Divine Feminine; The Future Is Female
is seared in the clear on our bright batch
of new clothes
which weeps- where is our empowerment?
Customers come and consume and commend
brandishing the crop tops in glamour and
pink pride
as vogues of rouge, summer shoppers and pink
rockers.
These shirts will revamp wildflowers to
sunflowers
these embellishment will make motives rouse
and rise
for this declaration: we have our pink
empowerment!
Behind the customers care, groans grieve by
the hour
they hammer halters and flatten female
futures, drinking pennies
their summer's sore, their summers made for
westward rockers
They whip in one hand and bolster in the
other
as sari girls slave for 2p a day to aid
their mothers
in the west, their well-dressed in exchange
for oppression: where is their empowerment?
Adaeze Onwuelo has been writing poetry ever since she was sixteen years old. Drawing inspiration from personal experience and events she witnesses, she attempts to express herself through poetry. She has been published in Ink, Sweat & Tears