TALIBAN WOMAN

She can't get medicine
Or an education
She must wear a burka
And walk with a slight limp.

Laughing is illegal
And so is showing skin
She lives just like a ghost
Or killed and imprisoned.

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Taliban woman
Beaten by her man
RAWA woman
Die to take a stand.

She must be circumcised
Her genitals are sewn
Its illegal to work
There's nothing she can own.

She can't hear pop music
Or use a telephone
It's the sixth century
For Taliban woman.

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But the RAWA woman
Is putting up a fight
With underground schools
They keep alive the light.

And the backroom parlors
Where they still paint their face
Give hope to all oppressed
That they may be so brave.