Sunday, April 3, 2011

To Be a Woman

by Alice Walker
from Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

To be a woman
Does not mean
To wear
A shroud;

The Feminine
Is not
Dead
Nor is she
Sleeping

Angry, yes,
Seething, yes.

Biding her time;

Yes.
Yes.

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