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Love, Lust and Loyalty by Yuimi Vashum tells the truth about something not often said or something often hushed. Divided in two parts, Vashum speaks about sexual abuse in the first part. Love, relationship and heartbreak dominates the second part.
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Love, Lust and Loyalty is far from what a superficial society would call, “conventional”. This collection of poems is powerful and unostentatious. These poems does not hold back nor do they put you on shackles. Rather these poems are liberating because sexual abuse is a thing we need to talk about right now…because relationship and heartbreak is nearly every person’s experience. Vashum’s poetry addresses sexual abuse, the issue of consent , misogyny , violence, sexism, relationship and love. But it’s beautiful things also , it’s pleasure , it’s sex, it’s falling in love. And these issues affect everyone as well.
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As Vashum writes in The Survivors , “ I write for the battered souls like me
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To forgive, forget , and only live;
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That, what is done to us in the shadows
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Shall not stop us from living life.
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We are air
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We don’t bend
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We don’t break
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We are unprecedented “
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Love, Lust and Loyalty bares it all but then rises like a Phoenix— an ablution yet sheltered and secured with scars.