What does it mean to be a woman?
Soft femininity, blushing and demure to those with masculine strength
Tinkling laughs and delicate blushes
Elegant and graceful, all curves and curls
Silky hair, plush skin, warm smile
Serenity and peace presented to the world on the most perfect of faces
Is that what makes a woman?
Gritting of teeth and biting of tongues
Crying, bleeding, shedding both the internal lining and deepest wants as the cycles change
Fighting and screaming for a place in the world, never to be heard
Going to bed beaten and sore just to get up and shoulder burdens others can never ease
World weary eyes, broken by the world that never allows for healing before the pain begins again
Maybe womanhood is found in the middle?
The fine line between delicate and strong
Independent but still submissive
Do it all, show no cracks
Take care of the world
All while on a tightrope with no net to break the inevitable free fall to cement
What will we tell the daughters still here and all the daughters to come?
Grow strong just not strong enough to be a threat
Use your voice till someone louder comes along
Relish in what changes have been made so far
At least we've made it further than women of the past
Who sit with haunted eyes of days gone by wishing to be young again
Has the idea of what a woman is been lost to complacency?
Women work, vote, drive, even own their own land
Women can do anything just so long as they stay in their station
Build up, but not beyond the reach of high heels
Because no good comes from reaching for stars
For just a brief touch of freedom
What does it mean to be a woman?
It means everything, yet nothing at all
It means to be praised in one breath and torn down in the next
It means walking the invisible line in shoes that were never meant to be practical
It means being alive without ever truly being human
It means living life, trying to swim in a world without ever being taught to tread water
What does it mean to be a woman?
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