The Hijab

The Hijab, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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the hijab
is a garment of
modesty they all know
but the west considers
it a garment of a woman's
oppression a womanly woe
though it is not part of
their religiosity their
ire on the hijab show
burn it ban it the hijab
they would
love to overthrow
it is sad
a peaceful
garment poetic
in nature its
imaginary faults
they over blow
a weapon
of mass destruction
they wont easily
let it go
so from this pain
my poem flows
my grand daughter
wears it on her
as innocence
as beauty as joy
it grows
her modesty
covered
head to toe
from her heart
into our heart glows
its her choice
a woman's birthright
her body her soul
she wont expose