Mariyam Saigal   (Mariyam Saigal)
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Joined 18 April 2017
13 JUL 2023 AT 18:16

Imagine

(Poem in caption)

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2 FEB 2023 AT 1:02

I want retribution

The women in my family have slaved enough
The queers in my family have been punished enough
The disabled in my family have been disabled enough

I tire of serving this great nation of patriarchy
Fighting a war that is not mine
I want absolute freedom
Absolute safety
Absolute rights
Not conditional to my relatibility to what qualifies as a good woman
But unconditional to my humxnity

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2 FEB 2023 AT 0:53

When you ask for more violence, money, cruelty, sex, power and hate
It's okay because humans evolve that way
But when I ask for more love, freedom, kindness, intimacy, mercy, and humility
It's not okay because humans evolve that way
It's easier to control the evolution of the former
Quite difficult to control the evolution of the latter

The group doesn't understand it's made up of individuals
And the individual doesn't understand it is made of a group

How am I survive when my survival of the fittest is your survival of the weakest

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10 OCT 2022 AT 5:28

Humanity is an optional protocol
while atrocity is a binding precedent

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15 AUG 2022 AT 22:59

Your saffron clothes
don't make you more Indian
And my hijab
doesn't make me less Indian

But I do think I love our country more than you,
Because even though fear grips my heart,
I join my hands
and I recite the preamble
like a dua.

I believe in secularism,
The freedom to practice any religion.
We call it practice
because nobody is perfect
in what they believe.
And nobody can take away
someone's right to believe.

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2 JUN 2022 AT 2:50

My muse went on a strike,
The chords on my uke formed a union.
All their demands sound the same to me,
"Free us from your mind."
If I put my thoughts out in the world
and nobody reads the way I write, nobody listens the way I write, nobody understands the way I explain
Won't my meaning get lonely?

I store them at the tip of my tongue and fingers,
I wait for the day where my muse's activism evaporates to the sky under the heat of my stomach & guts' crisis
Inspiration becomes a barren land I don't visit.
I wait for the day my ukulele forgets the language of notes & keys
And my ears hear a sound for what it is
I wait for the day, where validation is not the currency that buys the worthiness of being an artist
And I create because I can
not because you can make space for it

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6 APR 2022 AT 23:47

If Shatain is chained in hell during Ramadan
Does that mean if people have or are hell, shaitan stays chained there?
And what is shaitan but fear
And who is iblis but story of a creature that became an idea
That's why we can't see him but feel him
The devil tries to find a place inside me when i raise hell
But i write poetry and prison him in my poems
Do not unlock this metaphor
or my shaitan will be released and he'll swallow this world without chewing
If everybody has a jinn assigned to them by iblis
Then we all have God assigned to us
God never wanted to go to war with iblis
It's just us who did
When we didn't ask forgiveness for shaitan

Ya Allah this Ramadan i ask forgiveness for iblis
I know you stick to your word but i hope your mercy is greater

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2 APR 2022 AT 15:25

Poems, poems, everywhere.
How do i write? How do i care?
Teach me, oh elite ones!
How do i write without the sun?
How do i care for a song already sung?

Poems, poems, everywhere,
The longer I stare,
it becomes a game of truth or dare,
How can you be so carefree and share?
I can't cuz life's not fair.

Poems, poems, everywhere,
I wish I had inspiration but all i have is despair.

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1 FEB 2022 AT 2:00

I consider
forgetting someone's name as a compliment
imagine forgetting an identity a person didn't choose
not remembering which caste or religion they belong to
and just listening to them for who they are here
You're oye, arre yaar, dost
I forgot what tag you carried when you came here and found you as a human more than a product of this society
I spent the only wealth I have, my time on you
I feel like you opened the windows in your eyes
And I saw your soul
Souls don't have a title or a name
They have freedom

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21 JAN 2022 AT 11:19

Humanity has touched the moon
But it still hasn't learned how to touch each other
Humanity has drawn lines and mapped out patriotism
But it still hasn't learned the meaning between the lines on its palms

We have better weapons than people

What does this say about us?
What does it say?

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