Muslim Women's Daily Vigil

[virtuoso]

In domiciles designed by Allah,
sheltered from a world of desire,
shunted from the venues of masculine schemes.
Chattel serving their master's whims,
a stigma branded by divine creed.
Acceding only to their basic needs,
traipse onto boulevards without dreams.
Feminine procession in ritual mourning,
adorned with night's blighting veil,
not commemorating dead, buried bones,
but scorning their own comely graces.
Faces sheltered from sun's hoary rays-
grave linens absorbing the painful beams,
while deflecting each male's lusty glare.
Their suborned traces skirt time's shadow.
Silent corpses wrapped in cloth shrouds,
sharing a space reserved for the living-
the caretakers who engraved their tombstones.
Zombies avoiding their patron's gaze-
a vigil of fealty male honor to embrace;
their own extrinsic value to efface,
and all self-centered pursuits to erase.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

However, I shall write a poem about those women who adored internet still behind their keyboards from morning till the last hours of night neglecting their husbands rights, their sons right, their household relationship to say that they are poets, politicians, writers and so on…
Yes democracy is a good term of contemporary time but the social justice also is required, but to here not, I shall write the mentioned poem in Arabic forums

[mal4mac]

Mohammed, do many married women spend all their time on the internet in your country? The married women I know, in the UK, seem to balance things very well. Maybe if you treat them better they will not retreat to spending all day on the internet.

I found parts of the poem extremely distasteful, e.g., "Zombies avoiding their patron's gaze". These are women suffering from patriarchal oppression, not zombies.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

I think Iraqi women users of internet are the less number between all women users not only in Arab Homeland but across the world entirely because of the security conditions of the country yet it is too bad from one hand and the tribal nature of Iraq society from another hand.
Therefore, I think that the Iraqi tradition still conservative, however, using internet is not considered fault or guilt
In addition, as much as I logged on internet in many Arabic forums I am sure enough that Iraqi women are the less users of all women users.
The most women users between Arab are: Tunisian, Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian,and Palestinian
I have spent two years in one of the famous Arabic forums I didn't see but only one Iraqi woman user...
Believe me one day I have thought to gather a statistical information, I found out the number of women users of internet is about 70 % of all users. Isn't this ratio considered as a high ratio?
They don't sleep, all night they are awake logging on. I switched off my computer and got sleep still they were logging on, I woke up again past midnight they were logging on
Are all of them spinsters or widows? I don't know

[virtuoso]

Thanks for the comments, mohammad and mal4mac. The poem was obviously written from a Western point of view on women's rights. Muslim women are not supposed to have a prominent place in the public sphere. I described them as dead corpses walking along the patriarchal boulevards. This is an apt description mal4mac in the western anals of women's liberation.