All Woman

In all that is me

I am woman

Black hair 

Brown skin

I am woman

Lower back arched like the bridges I’ve been too afraid to cross on foot

Woman

Kings Hawaiian rolls in all the right places since birth

Woman

Oh and I love me some me for all the “she” that I am

Woman

Eyes like slivers of almonds when the sun shines bright 

Or I laugh for real

Or get squeezed tight

Woman

In all that is me

I am woman

The roar

The tears

The toil

I am woman

All that I fear

All that I’ve conquered

All that I still have to face set before me

Woman

The ups and downs

The hills I will choose to climb and the ones I will just casually roll down

I am woman

Not just in March do I march

365 and beyond

Woman