<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=470995" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Have No Power</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I have no power to change you<br>or explain your ways<br>Never believe a man can change a woman<br>Those men are pretenders<br>who think<br>that they created woman<br>from one of their ribs<br>Woman does not emerge from a man's rib's, not ever,<br>it's he who emerges from her womb<br>like a fish rising from depths of water<br>and like streams that branch away from a river<br>It's he who circles the sun of her eyes<br>and imagines he is fixed in place</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have no power to tame you<br>or domesticate you<br>or mitigate your first instincts<br>This task is impossible<br>I've tested my intelligence on you<br>also my dumbness<br>Nothing worked with you, neither guidance<br>nor temptation<br>Stay primitive as you are</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have no power to break your habits<br>for thirty years you have been like this<br>for three hundred years<br>a storm trapping in a bottle<br>a body by nature sensing the scent of a man<br>assaults it by nature<br>triumphs over it by nature</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never believe what a man says about himself<br>that he is the one who makes the poems<br>and makes the children<br>It is the woman who writes the poems<br>and the man who signs his name to them<br>It is the woman who bears the children<br>and the man who signs at the maternity hospital<br>that he is the father</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have no power to change your nature<br>my books are of no use to you<br>and my convictions do not convince you<br>nor does my fatherly council do you any good<br>you are the queen of anarchy, of madness, of belonging<br>to no one<br>Stay that way<br>You are the tree of femininity that grows in the dark<br>needs no sun or water<br>you the sea princess who has loved all men<br>and loved no one<br>slept with all men… and slept with no one<br>you are the Bedouin woman who went with all the tribes<br>and returned a virgin<br>Stay that way.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nizar+Qabbani">Nizar Qabbani</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=470995" data-title="I Have No Power de Nizar Qabbani" data-description="'I have no power to change you or explain your ways Never believe a man can change a woman Those men are pretenders who think that they created woman from one of their ribs Woman does not emerge from a man's rib's, not ever, it's he who emerges fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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