Brave to be different Women's Month

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Why do we use words to hurt our women?

So natural

So easy

In everyday life.

Slipping through our lips, bitch, butchering our name, slut, written on the walls, cunt, used as an insult, prude, used as a compliment, bitch, used in our phrase, slut, spoken as a praise, cunt.

Repeated through everyday life like there's nothing wrong.

We're not advocating hate with just that word, they say.

We aren't, but we don't realize that those words are ways to hurt us.

Why go to your best friend and say those words as endearment?

Why listen to a man call to you as a joke.

Hear through the halls like an echo from the past yet still in this future, in this time.

Do we see, we are still fighting?

Do we see, we don't use those words?

Please

Don't use those words anymore

Bitch, slut, cunt, prude

Bitch, slut, cunt, prude

Slipping through our lips

Spreading a disease

Awaking inner anger

I must speak

Up to the people

Don't let it repeat

Back to the people

Used as a joke

When it is a slur

So mad when it's used against you yet spreading it like wild fire with your smile.

Why speak those words?

Choose love

No, I'm not a bitch

No, I'm not a slut

No, I'm not a cunt

No, I'm not a prude

No, I'm not a bitch, I am just myself

No, I'm not a slut, I'm trying things out

No, I'm not a cunt, I'm expressing Who I am

No, I'm not a prude, I'm keeping to myself

Yes, I am, not using these words against, not using them to define me.

Not a bitch, slut, cunt or prude

But I'm my beautiful self that's learning to fly past the labels you throw through the room; it's not bouncing into my heart.

It never did, it never will.

Your insults won't register and resonate within me, but I can't ignore them and not speak up.

Yes, I am me
Yes, I am free
Yes, I am here
Yes, I am woman! Brave to be different!

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