"Strong Young Woman"

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I hate hearing
people call me a 'strong young woman'.

I am not strong.
I cry myself to sleep
under the mountain of stress
placed upon my shoulders.

I am not young.
My soul has been through more
than this body ever has,
a millennia of pain being pressed against this form.

I may be a woman,
but I feel like a child.
A little girl trapped in the world of giants
and a body that does not match my soul.

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