With anger
With hopelessness
With conviction

My heart
Compressed
Struggling to beat
Fighting back

Strong
I am unbreakable
With scars
Leaking blood
I rise 

You pushed me down
Down stairs
Down to the ground

You stood on my neck
Squeezed my neck
Squeezed away my hope
My confidence
My safety

You laughed at me
Laughed at my reason
My hope
My belief

You thought of ways to hurt me
Take away all that was important
You twisted words and other’s heart

You took your joy from my pain
But your weakness is my strength
Your cruelty is my character 

You bore into me
But you did not
And can never
Bore deep enough

I am made from the fires of the earths core
From the light of a trillion suns
My fury blows like the strongest hurricane
My purpose is deeper and stronger than all the oceans
I have mountains in my veins
And love are my rivers

I am Earth mother
Father sun
I will not bend

I will protect myself
My children
My rights
My truth
With the strength of a million women

You will never stand against me
You will never win

You will fade away into nothingness
Even your memory will be just a boulder I learned to climb 

I rise not only with strength
But with love

The stain of your smallness can never make me small
The stench of your limited self won’t stop me from absorbing beauty 

I am unbreakable
I will not cower
I will not sink into despair
I will not allow your darkness to dampen my light

I have roots as deep as the oldest tree
Wisdom as old as the earth
I am mother
I will not bend. 

My anger is something you must bare
For my voice will not be silenced
But I leave it with you

I choose love

When there was no one to love me
I chose to love myself
When I myself could find nothing to love
I clung to belief

I rose
I keep rising
I stand facing a rising sun

The path I have walked is behind me
Faded into shadows I need not walk again

I walk with the comfort of a burning sun
I walk with the strength of a thousand roots
I walk with the joy of the wind and rain laughing as they dance around me

I am mother
I am woman
I will not bend

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