Getting Reacquainted With Me

I am a woman. I may be small, but I stand tall. I am not a little girl. Yes, I've been squashed, and quashed, and messed and bossed about. I've bowed down trying to hold my ground, and I've been psychologically tossed around, but not now. Not anymore. I've been lied to, emotionally drained, driven to the point of insane, confusion spinning in my brain.. But no, not now. Not anymore.. I've been screamed at, used as a door mat - voluntarily laying flat to save myself the pain of the fall. Treated as an unequal, bullied to give up my all, but not anymore. Verbally abused, physically misused, then discarded and forgotten like an old, used, dirty tissue.. Well, hell no! I will not be that anymore! I am a woman! And I may be small but I stand tall, and this is me raw! Because I know my worth now. I see myself like I never have before, and I will not lay on the floor for anyone. Not any more. I am not just a body, I am SOMEbody. I am not a hole, I am a WHOLE. Not a toy for any boy, I have a purpose, and it is not as something to do! I am a woman. I am somebody. I'm Me. And I'm not here to be screwed. Yes, I have many lessons under my belt, and I know exactly what, in future, to avoid. But the biggest lesson of all was being shown what I deserve.. And no longer will I settle for any less than I have to give, myself. Because I am a woman, and now I know my worth. And there is not a thing on Earth can make me take another ounce of anybody's dirt.. This may sound hard and spiky, but inside I am so, so soft.. 'Plush'.. Because I am a woman. And with the right heart, and the right words you could make me blush.. But only as my equal. And I am in no rush to find my equal. I'm getting reacquainted with Me..