Women
Growing up, I've learned from both my abuelas experiences
that you should never let a man define you
you do not need his pity gestures in order to feel good about yourself
and most of all you don't need to open your legs in order
to be considered a "woman"
or in order to seek their fulfillment before yours
you do not need a man who does not encourage your growth and beauty
how dare him, how dare him reflect his insecurities on you
this is like telling a flower to stop growing because growing makes them
beautiful and eventually others will want to pick at them
but you see growing is what makes a flower such as ourselves bloom into something we all aspire
we crave to be like other girls
with tiny waists,big butts,clear skin and so on
the same way others crave to be us
we spend so much time picking at every insecurity that
we waste tons on beauty products
so that we can get rid of the age wrinkles, the acne scarring, makeup to cover
up the flaws we behold
all because that's how society wants it
we are all beautiful
we don't need these false advertisements
that makes us believe that getting them will make us "beautiful"
when we already are
we have to learn to embrace our ancestors genes
prove to them we will nurture ourselves into becoming what they couldn't
back then women were slaves to their husbands
self love did not exist for them
so you see, do not ever think you are not worthy enough
you are intelligent
you are brave
you are strong
and you are beautiful
so its time to turn all your insecurities into seeds and grow them
every flower blooming at its own time
encourage all the women around you
we might have all been born in different wombs but at the end of it we are all
sisters
so imagine a world where we work together and bring all each other up wouldn't that be great?
a world where there's no competition
between women
no comparison
just love
Copyright © Tiffany Herrera | Year Posted 2018
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