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7-23-2009 2:27 PM
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A strong woman is a woman bleeding
inside. A strong woman is a woman making
herself strong every morning while her teeth
loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,
a tooth, midwives used to say, and now
every battle a scar. A strong woman
is a mass of scar tissue that aches
when it rains and wounds that bleed
when you bump them and memories that get up
in the night and pace in boots to and fro.
A strong woman is a woman who craves love
like oxygen or she turns blue choking.
A strong woman is a woman who loves
strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly
terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong
in words, in action, in connection, in feeling;
she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf
suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she
enacts it as the wind fills a sail.
What comforts her is others loving
her equally for the strength and for the weakness
from which it issues, lightning from a cloud.
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7-23-2009 2:29 PM
Lexica
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Lightning stuns. In rain, the clouds disperse.
Only water of connection remains,
flowing through us. Strong is what we make
each other. Until we are all strong together,
a strong woman is a woman strongly afraid.
7-23-2009 2:56 PM
chestnut501
Wonderful imagery, thanks Lexi
7-24-2009 11:13 AM
wiganfootie
Love it
11-3-2009 12:03 PM
elbedry
Iam A Muslim
Iam Sudanese
Iam Lookin For Muslim Woman Ready To Be Clean Tight With Me For Ever And Ready To Give Me Children
That Is All
Elbedry
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