La femme n'existe pas

by Karla   Jun 14, 2012


Won't you celebrate my breasts
and all the complexities pervading
the strange mission of being a woman,
or even the parenthesis contained between
my legs always open to my own
doubts?

Your Lacanian psychology
can't give an account of my lacks.
I am not your symptom.
How could a subject like me
be dissolved if your entire being
lies in my body? I can't lend myself
to your generalizations and assumptions.
All I can do is to sustain your (in)consistency,
I can't obey your mysterious logic though.

Won't you celebrate my condition
of poetry when your mouth faced me
with silence and awe?
In the beginning I must confess I desired
only. I used to think there was love
because you gave me the extent I didn't have.
It was a sweet paradox to deceive myself
when I knew what I wanted all the time.
The loneliness of love saturated me
for your words abandoned me when
the lights were on.

Aragon said that love is to lie truly:
You thought so little. I thought I loved you.
Our failure was so enthralling.
We shall sit and consider the fact
that I am not what you are
meanwhile we toast my uterus
for I still can co-create life
even when life I can't find in myself.

Karla Bardanza

La femme n'existe pas=Woman doesn't exist

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  • 12 years ago

    by Robert Gardiner

    Wonderful Karla!!!

  • 12 years ago

    by PETER EDWARDS

    Wow! This is a powerful piece of work!
    I am lost for words. This is an amazing piece!

  • 12 years ago

    by Darren

    Great Job, very powerful ending.

    I was a bit worried where this was going after reading the first stanza.

    Men hey!

    regards

    Darren

  • 12 years ago

    by Lioness

    Awesome write Karla,

    I love how the title was in another language, very beautiful because it drew me in and made me want to know what it meant.

    Loved reading this, Awesome write Karla.

    Your poems move me always

    x

  • 12 years ago

    by L

    Strong Piece! My favorite part,

    "I used to think there was love
    because you gave me the extent I didn't have.
    It was a sweet paradox to deceive myself
    when I knew what I wanted all the time."