Posted by sfmom on December 5, 2003, at 16:07:06
In reply to Re: You Are Not Alone, posted by geri122 on December 5, 2003, at 15:03:49
Geri,
Those are truly beautiful poems. This is the first time I've cried today, but they are tears of joy. Thank you so much for that and for sharing with us. You are an incredibly sensitive, strong and beautiful woman. Please keep writing and sharing with us. It means so much to me that you trust us with your deepest truths. And in return, below is a poem that I wrote when I was 21 and dealing with some sh*t of my own. Maybe it will help, maybe not, but I feel like sharing it.
What does it mean to be a woman?
Do you have to stop being a girl?
Will I know it when it happens?
Or did I already miss it while I was too caught
up in love songs and memories?And what does it mean to be a strong woman?
When we all have our moments of weakness when
faced with ourselves in the dead of a lonely night.
Is it in how we face the new day?
And just because we can get by without sinking,
does that make us independent?Or does it come in the knowledge that although we may never know these answers,
we will always be all of these things at once:
girl, daughter, sister, woman, mother, strong,
independent, and sometimes lonely.And yet by some miricle of God,
we also hold within us the power to give new life.
Is this then our purpose?And so then to my sisters, my dearest friends,
and most of all to my mother,
I thank you for your many gifts of love and strength that have made me the woman that I am
and the woman that I will continue to become.
You will always be a part of me just as I am a part of you.
For in moons, and in earth, and in blood,
these bonds that we share make us all One.11/20/95
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