Daughter of Clay by Tabassum Hasnat (Bangladesh, 21)

Neither do I belong to those fetters of fragility
furled around my feet, nor do I belong
to the shallowly strength depicted
by utter superficiality;

I am the daughter of clay,
and of callosity,

crafted with the competence
of being fragile and fortitudinous
all at once.

I am a mortal moulding
and demoulding to attain the best of myself,
and not the one to corrode away whilst
chasing the calm or chaos of this world.

I shall not be the devotee of the norms
that have been nurtured with sheer
nonsense, but of those rebellions
that taught me to trounce every
worldly woe or wreck.





Tabassum Hasnat, a Bangladeshi freelance writer of shortform fictitious genres. She has her own personal blog on the global platform of Storymirror Pvt Ltd. She has co authored multiple anthologies and book compilations where her stories/proses/poetries have been published on international platforms like Amazon, Kindle, Google books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Notion press, etc. Previously worked as a Creative intern for the creative dept. of Moshal Mental Health and for Quirky Magazine. At the moment, she is working as the Head of Content and Creative for an Arts organization named Esscre, a full-time law student, and as a writer/journo for her university's independent publication.