It Takes Strong Women
It Takes Strong Women
It Takes Strong Women
by Hayley Boyle
It took a strong womanto create a strong woman.To birth her into the night.Bearing her forth with the cries ofone thousand armies.As she, too, criedfaced with light and air and removedfrom the thrum of heartbeats and blood.It took a strong womanto reveal a strong woman.To be bold, fierce, unashamed.Asking for more whenleft unsatisfied. Smoldering,not evaporating into the ether when forceful tongues clamorfor the space she inhabits.
It took a strong womanto endure the weight of generations.To stitch stories of those who came before her.Hemming those yet imaginedinto the seams of us.All in the name oftrust, that you and I would not forgetour mothers nor daughters.