I'm branching out,
I'm reaching for the stars,
& no one can tell me no.
Shattering glass ceilings
everywhere.

I KEEP SAYING
I JUST NEED TIME
JUST NEED TIME
NEED TIME
TIME TIME TIME
BUT IT SCARES ME TO WONDER
HOW MANY
DAYS
WEEKS
MONTHS
YEARS
WILL IT TAKE TO
FEEL
WHOLE
AGAIN

your new york street cat-calls
will never touch me

because i am woman,
and you will ******* hear me

roar, loud enough
to shake the earth

and sky

people always said to me
"you're too young to be a feminist"

but what does that even mean?
are you ever to young to fight?

i swear on the bible

girls with dreams and big ideas
are scarier than monsters

and her eyes are not oceans,
she is not a tsunami

she is beautiful
she is god
she is woke
she is queen

the black girl, the white girl
the brown girl all make

a rainbow
and I want

to savor every ******* moment