POEM: Because I Am a Woman

My menstruation is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My female body is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My femininity is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My maternity is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My pregnancy is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My childbirth is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My breastfeeding is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My motherhood is mine,

Because I am a woman.

My womanhood is mine,

Because I am a woman,

And it is not up for debate.

POEM: What Is a Woman

A woman is the beautiful sex.

A woman is the fragile sex.

A woman is Eve’s daughter.

A woman is motherhood.

A woman is pregnancy.

A woman brings life into the world.

A woman is caring.

A woman is nurturing.

A woman is delicate. 

A woman is feelings.

A woman is emotions.

A woman is balance.

A woman is resilience.

A woman has the heart of an artist.

A woman is a man’s companion.

A woman is the yin to the yang.

A woman is complementing the other half.

A woman is not unequal to the other half, just different.

A woman is sacred feminine.

A woman should go without saying, shouldn’t she?

POEM: Gender

I keep being told that my gender was assigned to me at birth.

No, it was not.

It was merely observed at birth.

Well, what can I say.

Actually, it goes without saying that I was not born genderless.

Some high-profile dignitaries in our society think that you need a degree in biology to understand gender.

Really?

And here I thought for my entire life that all you need for that is common sense.

Didn’t you?

Granted, I don’t have a degree in biology.

But I did pay attention to biology classes in school.

I don’t have any issues with my gender.

Do you?

Thank you, Mother Nature, for giving me my gender before I was born.

POEM: Erasure

I have been called names.

Many different names.

Many humiliating, degrading, insulting, and erasing names.

A non-man.

A bonus hole.

A person with vagina.

A menstruator.

A uterus owner.

A birthing person.

A chest feeder.

A womxn.

And the ultimate slur,

A ciswoman.

Well, no.

I am not any of these things.

I am a woman.

And I will not have it any other way.