Don't You Recognize Me?
Muhsanah/Aurat

Music: Un bel di 
from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, 
sequenced © by V. Molina Alonso, 
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... I'm your love of country,
through birth or naturalization;
indeed, I am your country by conceptualization, 
and your duty felt as pride or pang; 
I'm the torch song in the anthem you committedly sang; 
... Seven, ten, more veils but only one showing: 
the material interface of idyllic knowing.
Widow in black, emblem to the dead,
one with life's blood,
the lady in red.

The above is excerpted from
 the poem titled Don't You Recognize Me?
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