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TO BE A WOMAN

November 30, 2020
By Anonymous

“Yes, injured Woman! Rise, assert thy right! Woman! Too long degraded, scored, oppressed; O born to rule in partial Law’s despite resume thy native empire o’er the breast!”


To be a woman 

Is to be property.


To act ladylike

Is to mold into a stereotype.


To speak up is unheard of

Just go crawl behind the white man you see in front of you. 


A glimpse of street is all you see before the warmth blood drains every part

Every being you thought to be strong. Now gone.


Pick up the bandages. Bandage that wound.

We are strong. We see in color.


The author's comments:

This poem is about abortion and how people see women 


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