Alive

Alive

I am a woman

I became one when I was 7

Not because I hit puberty

But because I would get there soon

Why would you be worried about me not being one?

unless of course it was not natural for me to be woman you wanted me to be

I was fierce, I was loud

I was authentic, as much as a pound

So you put me down,

You yelled out loud  

And raised that hand

Till i bowed and bent

I was rising again

I knew it would take more to kill my spirit

As you rightly understood

You’d need to beat me black and blue

This time I bent a little more

With that strong blow

This is what it is like to be a woman, you said

Now you know ?

I was weak, you were strong

This journey went on for far too long

This seems like a crown

But it is full of thorns

I am still alive, I recalled

This means the tables will turn

And I am sure you will burn

With every little churn

Only now I learnt that my fight was not with thy

You were making me a princess that would survive

For a woman like that would not be tolerated to live

I am now just like you

I am sure that’s what you went through too

I am alive now and I am beyond the walls of protection

I am still that women before I was 7, only slightly bent

I am always on the rise

And one day there will a different roll to the dice

I know you might want to kill me

As much I want to kill your ideology

But as they say, if you kill me..

You’ll only kill a woman

The fire is ready to spread.

Like a giant wave in the ocean.