Ashel

“Where we are equals before the law Yet it is more righteous to kill the
innocent To blame the victim and forgive the rapist In the name of God”
― Aaiún Nin, Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

“God gave man the word
And in the word was his name Man took the word and interpreted it In his
likeness
The likeness only of the man The word condemned the woman”
― Aaiún Nin

“The word of God taught women to hate
themselves And seek supremacy in the oppression of others To look for
redemption in violence Condone violence committed against other
women In the name of God”
― Aaiún Nin, Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

“And the soil
where the body of the murdered lesbian lay Soaked her blood
Absolved her from the justice she would not receive In the name of God
was she killed And in the name of God will her murderer be forgiven In
the land of the free”
― Aaiún Nin