Bren Dove -14 yrs. Old
I AM NOT A DRESS
We are women, we are warriors of steel,
Woman is something no man will ever feel,
Woman is not a skill that any man can hold,
Woman is our word, and it is ours alone,
I am not a dress to be worn on a whim,
A man in a dress is nonetheless a him,
Women are not simply what we wear,
If this offends you, I do not care,
I am not an idea in any man's mind,
And my purpose in life is not to be kind,
So when my rights are trampled every day of the week,
I will not stand by being docile and meek,
I am not defined by sexists eyes,
There is more to a woman than that shallow guise,
That guise of dresses, bikinis, and skirts,
Those clothes are not what womanhood is worth,
I am not a b****, a terf, a whore, a slag,
Hysterical, a witch, a slut, a hag,
No, I am a woman, I'm a female,
Who will not her rights be put up for sale,
I am not defined by what men are not,
So to Hell with cis misogynistic rot,
I am a woman, I'm not a subset of my sex,
If this makes me a dinosaur, so be it, I'm a t-rex,
I am not a bleeder, nor a menstruator,
A womb carrier or a uterus haver,
Those words and phrases are such a sham,
Just call me woman, it is who I am,
We are women, we are warriors of steel,
Woman is something no man will ever feel,
Woman is not a skill that any man can hold,
Woman is our word, and it is ours alone
A thing of beauty, and I'm not even a feminist.
I can, however, imagine what it's like to be a woman these days,
when the patriarchy is literally taking over womanhood by "becoming" women themselves.