You admire pieces of me Soft and beautiful For the pleasure they can give you You condemn my capability Practicality and spirituality You claim I can’t have it both ways I can’t indulge my senses and hold power the same Divine femininity has become synonymous with delusion In a modern world that will never love me I am aligned with the moon I am in tune With the rhythm of the waves And the passage of days You don’t know what I feel How it is to exist in a world not built for you Every living soul Assigning your worth for what you can’t control All of mankind is built on the principle That my body was built for your enjoyment That my life belongs to whatever man finds beauty in my eyes And peace in my silence Of course I turn to the tides and the trees and the breeze To find comfort in their embrace When you can’t hold me You mock me for connecting to something bigger than my body Loving Mother Nature more than the woman that brought Me into this world Yet you reduce my strength to beauty Tell me I am too weak and small and simple minded To understand a world you built Out of fear of me My divine femininity