Stories About the Dead : Shame II

/ʃeɪm/

Cambridge:

If something is described as a shame, it is disappointing or not satisfactory;

an uncomfortable feeling of guilt or of being ashamed because         of your own or someone else's bad behaviour; loss of honour and respect;

to make someone or something seem not good by comparison.

I like shame.

It keeps everything together. 

To locate shame , 

you have to look underneath your ribs where your heart lies. 

Here lies my shame 

My people love to tell a story; 

of morality, 

of culture, 

of values;

additives to my inherited shame. 

My shame in being a woman, afforded to me by my birth. 

shame on my growth , 

the shame on my liberation from my psychological bondage. 

my cradle to the world. 

Shame. 

My earliest grave before I lived.