I don't want to fit

Being a woman is birthed from so much pain. The resilience I carry in my stride has carried me through many moments in life. My body has ached from the things it has endured. I am so proud of it. I continue to look at all the ways the world has tried to put in me in a box just because of who I am. It won’t work; however I appreciate how hard society tells me to marry by a certain time + birth just enough children to keep me from ever seeing the light of day. I laugh at how the world embraces the notion that makes me subservient in every space. I never listen because I know that it doesn’t apply to me.

On this day + everyday I embrace being a woman. Now what that means to me is my personal narrative. I believe that to understand the fullness of a woman you must understand that she is more than anything society could ever make her out to be. I welcome how my body is changing + the lines tell a story about all the places I have been. I remind myself that opening my legs on my own terms has always been a privilege + to speak my mind at the same time deserves respect. The world could never oppress someone that has mothered generations. Besides if you have survived the constructs that were meant to put you in a box with any level of kindness then you deserve to be just as hard as you are soft.