Edira
1 June 2072
Dear man.
I am woman.
I cannot speak, they think I cannot write. But I am woman.
I am the maker to your magic, without me
you are no one.
I felt the dust swirl around my feet as I
entered the workshop. The stench of the air making my toenails curl into the
earth. The particles of women crying,
flowing down my lungs as I grasp my new reality. Never had I seen a bed used
before, not the ones I made. Since the beginning I made things, that’s how I
know how to write. I stole books and took them to my cove. The cove was my safe
haven. That’s what they told us this island was. I looked around the grey dusty
room and saw no faces. only holes, long noses and screams. Man called my name
and I went. He did not know my name, I am only woman.
I do not know what happened next.
I do not want to know what happened next.
Women tell me I do not want to know…
I walked back to my cove. My legs and
hole started to hurt as I walked, I felt weak. I stumbled my way to the dark
wooden door and grabbed the swinging handle. My stomach started to throb, so I
walked into my cove to the tabletop where my monthly food had been laid out for
me. Chocolate was the only thing that ever appealed to me at the start of each
month. Which reminds me, I must find the special underwear for this next week.
Man, let me explain the life of women.
-woman
15
November 2072
Dear
man.
I
am woman.
We
exist.
I
live on island. Only women and the mighty man live on island. You, man, live on
world. Women supply your world. We make the food, the beds, the everything on
world. Women don’t get the everything. We get what High Man gives us.
I’ve seen High Man himself.
He holds gun.
Gun holds power.
Power keeps women scared.
Maybe I am not women, I am not scared.
They call us women. We have no names. Only
woman. But I have a name. My name is Edira. I learnt the name in one of the
Hebrew books I made for man.
It has been the week after the month
started.
The blood never came, the pain never
came.
But the bump came.
Every day I was walked to the grey dusty
room by mighty man. Put on bed and then man came. Sometimes the man had a
different smell but once one smell left, it never came back. Every night I was
walked back to my cove by mighty man, my hole throbbing. That was until the
bump came.
Mighty man was directed to take me,
woman, to high man when the bump came. It was celebrated, I was preg-nant. I never
left the High Mans place. He told me I will be here until I have young man.
Man, let me explain the life of women.
-Edira
09
February 2073
Dear
man.
I
am Edira.
Being
pregnant and living in the High Man’s place earnt me the role of human. Mighty
man are gentle. The air is soft.
The
other night my bump started to hurt. I cried out in pain. Mighty man came with
water, lots of water. I was able to drink two cups of water. High Man came to
visit. Woman listened to the bump and nodded at High Man. Then she was taken
out of the room by mighty man, roughly.
Maybe
I should be pregnant all the time so I am treated as human.
But
maybe this is only because I have man within me, young man is human.
But
I know that I am human. Man doesn’t know, I think High Man does. He is the key
to man knowing about woman.
Man,
let me explain the life of woman.
-Edira
27
March 1973
Dear
man.
I
am Edira.
I
am Human.
Young
man arrived and the mighty man took him away.
Baron,
I named him, young warrior.
I
hope one day young warrior sees this writing. Man needs to know about woman.
But
now this writing is to High Man.
I
may get written down in history by your bitter, twisted lies. High Man may
tread me in this very dirt but still I will rise. Baron will hear my voice,
women will become human once more.
Man,
this is the life of woman
-Edira
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