Did the girth of my thighs and the way they Run this earth shaking, quaking, leaving Fireprints on their paths behind, Scare your flammable, charred-bark colored eyes Did my five feet and ten inches fingers toes Two filled lungs feeding heart and brain Tower over your equal height and Half sized mind, was the thought of a Home between my legs really too much to Believe is that why you felt the need to Break and enter when the door was locked Windows bolted and shut, the word “No” Out of my mouth and out of my gut Do you kiss your mother with the same mouth That burned holes in my back Do you shake your father’s hand with the same hand That tried to rip me in half
I am still here still tall and still strong Still flying beyond the foulness of Your being still seeing beauty Gracing this earth and this skin I am in, ivory and speckled and Tenderly taught, thick to the core I am so much more I am Too woman for you