Friday, August 22, 2025

Swallow

By Noor Ahmed

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Through loveless, lustful

eyes I am watched.

To be beautiful is to be watched.

 

By the men

who place a woman's body

over her importance.

 

By the men who consume

with their eyes

the ones who undress

for a moment of

primal, bliss.

 

By the ones who grab

their crotch at the

sight of cleavage.

 

By the men who use force,

to make me theirs,

to taste their sin.

 

 

About the Author


Noor Ahmed is a reader and writer in her first semester at ICC. She hopes to transfer to UIUC and double major in English and creative writing. She spends most of her free time frustrated with her penmanship. She loves her cat, Sunny, who always jumps off her lap while she writes her in-progress books.

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