Speaking as a Woman
Speaking as a woman who loves to smile
Despite broken teeth and leg
Who knows that a broken heart is mended surely by love
Speaking as a women who lost 5 stone
Despite her psychiatrist
Who told herself “I can do that” and its his fault for being wrong
Speaking as a woman who used to sell
Whatever to whoever
Who realised that market place can lead to the loss of soul
Speaking as a woman with an only child
Who killed the rest inside her womb
Who knew no love but sex which burnt her insides like a bomb
Speaking as a woman who used to lie
To fit the world where truth kills
Who had a strong will to survive and climb the hills
Speaking as a woman who dares to speak
While all the world tells her to shut up
Who lets the truth heal her mind erasing lying crap
Speaking as woman who is loved
Despite all wrongs she ever did
Who at long last has got the might to be
All right! all right! All right!“
©Natalia 2004
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