Yo también

No.

Do you want to hear in it Spanish?

            No.

My clothes

            mi ropa

My words

            mis palabras

My lips

            mis labios

And my looks

            y mis aspectos

does not mean

you can touch,

            grab,

            pull me

like a desirable toy

at a playground.

To take my body

and treat it as an object

means you destroy

my humanness. 

Of all the living creatures

that live on this Earth,

that have the actions

to breathe,

            respirar

to see,

            para ver

to hear,

            oir 

to feel,

            sentir

and to touch,

            tocar,

we women 

            nostotros mujeres

are the worse treated beings alive.

Me too.

Yo también.

“Waiting” by Beryl_snw is licensed under CC0 1.0

Written by 

Krystal Beatriz Galvis, born and raised in San Diego, California, is a writer fascinated with magic, fantasy, and darkness. She is a MFA graduate student at San Diego State University studying creative writing. Outside from writing short stories, she researches any Latinx fables or myths and writes small poems on her Instagram page under the hashtag #krystalg.

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