"A Letter to Her Father"

Twice I have written you that I am unhappy,
my lord,
and you wrote back:
"Go and enter the city of Aslakka."

Now I have gone into Aslakka
and I am very unhappy.

For Ibal-Addu's wife is queen there!
That woman takes in gifts almost every day
from a multitude of cities,
including Aslakka,
but she forces me to sit in a corner
like a female idiot,
digging my fingers into my cheek

Eristi-Aya was also the daughter of Zimri-Lim, but she seems to have been placed in a cloister by her parents, as most of her writing addresses that topic. 

"A Letter to Her Mother"

I am a king's daughter, you a king's wife.
I am furious!
Those tablets you and your husband used
to order me into this cloister,
Let's forget them.
But remember this:
even warriors seized as booty in war
are treated humanely.
At least, treat me like them!
 

Map from http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm

Both poems above come from A Book of Women Poets, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, which was published by Schocken Books, out of New York, in 1980.