"Isn't home supposed to be more than a house?
A place where you belong?"
"We put your name on the door. What more do you want?"
"Aren't the people in it supposed to be your own tribe,
Who stands by you no matter what?"
"Not when you don't listen to what they say. Obey, rather than have your own mind."
"How does it feel to be a stranger in your own home?
Unfamiliar with your own people?"
"It's your fault you feel that way."
"How does it feel knowing the place you thought to be your identity was the source of all the traumas you endure, secretly screaming into the pillow every night?"
"Now, don't be so dramatic, women before and after you feel the same!"
"You are only another woman. You must be adjusting to the world of men, Ready to be a second-class citizen."
"But what if she is not tailor-made for it?
What if she wants her own corner in your place?"
"A woman with her own space is dangerously independent.
We cannot allow that.
She should be under a man's identity."
"To satisfy your fragile egos, she should not demand what is rightful? A place to belong to? A space to breathe that is hers?"
"I see that education has gone to your head. You are demanding absurd things like equality and respect."
© Suranya
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