My hair is graying and wrinkles adorn my eyes and my lips giving away simplistic realities of age. My breasts dance a little lower, my abdomen resists waistlines, arms give way to gravity. My vision struggles under the weight of years of curiousity and the seeking of understanding. I have born pain each moon to the cycles of the same and I have suffered the loss of all it represents with dignity, most days. And while some who silver seek the plumpness of more youthful gazes, I am reminded that wisdom is not always gleefully won. But it is won nonetheless… for
I am woman.
I bare the scars of my unwillingness to submit to the world in a way only the secret places of the universe understand. I bare the children of a thousand sorrows into the day breaking solace of tomorrow. Love me or not, I am woman.