This ride🚗💨
I'm more than my body. (Not that I have much of a body according to society.)
I'm more than my face.
Having a man doesn't make me feel like a woman.
Having a child doesn't make me feel like a woman.
Getting married wouldn't make me feel like a woman.
A man or a baby doesn't make me feel like I've flourished in my womanhood.
Marriage wouldn't make or break me in my element.
What makes me feel like a woman is the way I carry myself.
The things I accomplish for myself individually.
Getting my hands on the American dream life doesn't make me feel superior in my womanhood.
What makes me feel strong as a woman is establishing independence for myself.
Working towards establishing a career for myself.
Doing what I love. Which is writing in my truth.
Wearing comfortable clothing.
Having free curly hair.
Walking into a room and not caring about catching the eyes of a man.
Not feeling compelled to conform to society's expectations of how I should experience womanhood.
Defining myself for myself.
And defining what womanhood means to me on my own terms.
I want to be the woman I want to be.
I don't want to be what a man wants me to be.
At least not until I've fully grown into a woman all the way.
I need to understand this thing for myself first.
I have to control this ride, because if I don't, I will melt under pressure and I will surely crash.
I have to be behind the wheel for this ride. -J.S.
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Bare Soul
PoetryMy Bare Soul can be found at the pit of the glistening waterfalls where my words reside. My loud vulnerability. My truth that I do not hide. My voice although unheard, my words make it come alive. Although it trembles, my hand or pen in it never sha...
