To Patriarchy

Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, writer, translator and performer. She's currently taking a PhD at the University of Brighton, exploring how poetry can support Belarusian women to share experiences of gender-based violence and patriarchy.

Published at

22 April 2025

Written by

Hanna Komar, Belarus

Poet and Playwright

Freeing our hair from your graspis high treason.

Freeing our wrists from your graspis high treason.

Freeing our necks from your graspis high treason.

Freeing the voicesis a death sentence.

We won’t beat either drumsor kitchen pots.

Justice comes quietlylike death in a dream.

No one will be happyuntil we break freefrom your grasp,let you out of your own trap.

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