Popular Poems About Strength

You can take five steps    
if you know how to do it    
one-two-three-four    
pivot-on-five.    
   
Go back the other way    
pivot again    
the opposite way    
   
this time    
so the equilibrium    
there in your ears    
   
does not swirl  
and throw you into    
a world of vertigo.    
   
Keep going.    
Look out the tiny slit    
of frosted glass window    
   
so high up at six stories    
not even the shadow    
of a passing cloud is cast    ...

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she was born to a family who had no use for daughters
doting on 3 sons...little girl practically forgotten
shuffled off to live with relatives & boarding school
because her own parents didn't know what to do with her
...or maybe they just couldn't be bothered

I used to believe she was incredibly sheltered
so much in life seemed to shock her
turns out...that wasn't it...
she was reared to be seen...keep quiet & be pretty
most importantly...expected to marry
...within or above her supposed station ...

Still she loves...

The world has been unkind. Shes been taught the lesson her whole life that she is somehow less. A constant barrage of criticism and judgement by men, the media and even other women. Every time she looks in the mirror she is reminded of all her imperfections and all the places where she lacks. She's been beaten and abused. She's been taken advantage of and taken for granted. She's been an afterthought. Shes stood in someone else's shadow. She's been underappreciated. She's been stripped of her voice and her choice. In spite of all that, she loves. She loves...