we are women
in a class all our own
we transformed from little girls
with blood and guts
we fought
we kicked and screamed our way to the top
we learned our place at the table
and then we earned the space we took up
we wrote our way out
educated by life,
in lessons on etiquette and service
on grammar and punctuation
giving explanation owed to no one
commandeering our stories
the subject of our own lives
we describe, we act out, create tension,
interject, and modify
we are complex and independent,
we stand in apposition to each other
complementing our differences,
depending on them
we are not a participle
we predicate our voice,
not in relation to or to hyphen,
an article to an antecedent
direct,
slashing those in question
this was not a mad dash, or a mood swing
we are not a segmented clause,
we are the whole damned thing
there is nothing semi
about anything we are doing
we are women, period.
no ellip sis
take your time to define
how you feel inside
but the only thing about women
put in quotation marks
are the words we use
from which you derive
strength, order, and the
connection to the divine.
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