Warrior
I am
a warrior's heart
sustaining
life
mother
daughter earth
woman
she
her
me
wings in onyx
wind to phoenix
rising
always rising
from the ashes
of (t)his
indifference
and while
my self-involved
imperfections
tarry me
inward
the outward reflection
will always be
my greater knowing
for it is
the ancestry of my gender
the sacred burden of my sex
to be
the core of strength within
each weakness
perceived
to always equal the greater sum
of my circumstances
to breath
more compassion
than each spinelessly crafted
rejection
to bleed
deeper
than the sever of expectations
braided
inandthrough
each predetermined womanly perfection
it is
the curse and the worth
of my birth
femininity's manifestation
soldiering into bearing
love's culmination of itself
michelle williams © 2011
