A Note To My Younger Self

From the time you crawled you were not fast enough

To the point you started running when you were cursed for not being tough

You were bullied, You were depressed

You wanted to scream but your emotions were suppressed

You disguised tears with your soulful laugh

You rollicked around with broken heart

You fell so bad that your knee bled

But you rose again running fast instead

You feared the dark, you feared being groped

You sprinted fast to save yourself from being choked

You feared animals since they were beasts

But you forgot that the man following you on the dark alley was no less a cheat

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You hated men because they robbed you of your modesty

But it was a man again you loved for all his honesty

To my younger self you are a woman, the harbinger of life

The life of both a male and a female

You are power, you are goddess, you are strength beyond fathom

You will rise from the ashes like the phoenix,

You will behold your trident and once you do the monsters would fear

For you have the virtue to kill, to protect, to set an example, to retaliate

Rise and rise so high that the life you so vehemently carry in your womb for months

Knows that a woman is more than beauty and can fiercely confront