you wrote anyway by Abhilasha Ghosh

One Poem Only · Nov 6, 2025 · 4m

you wrote anyway

Abhilasha Ghosh

july 25th, 2025

you were told

writing was a man’s terrain—

ink too heavy, thought too sharp

for your soft hands.

so you wrote anyway.

you became george eliot

when mary ann wouldn’t be taken seriously.

they admired your mind

but never called it yours.

you were the brontë sisters,

signing as currer, ellis, and acton bell—

three pens dipped in restraint,

writing women with thunder in their hearts.

you were ismat chughtai,

on trial for obscenity

because you dared to speak of women

as if we had bodies

and stories

and agency.

you were christine de pizan,

arguing…