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Woman

To be this woman
is to awaken

awaken
no longer forgetting
nor disappearing
she senses now
touches
feels
and hears
the lies

lies others had fed her starving empty heart
N o
she did not sacrifice herself
she was taken
possessed
discarded then

left

she was nothing
nothing to them
nothing

then
the day came
when the roar of rage and defiance
erupted so deep from her body
and screamed to the whole of existence ‘never again!’

for many days and nights there were
Memories
cold stark Memories
but courage wrapped its way around her
trembling soul
like warmed gold resin
soothing
joining the fragments

she wore her breaks now with dignity
with pride
pride in brushing off the remnants of others’ shame,
a shame that was Never

was Never hers.

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