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women are taught to be smaller / since they are children themselves / in the room they take up...
women are taught to be smaller
since they are children themselves,
in the room they take up,
in the meetings and decisions,
the sizes must be an xs or a small
they say to themselves,
is this really the world
we have built for ourselves?
cannot blame the victims of the culture we are shaped in
but i sometimes do really wonder
are we just chapters to be experienced?
the skinniest in the room
or the boldest with the perfume
"don't focus on your reflection" they say
but when the beauty standards are all that she is handed,
it's like it's in the air we inhale
if hearing about it feels so insufferable
have you ever thought how it must feel
to live the unshakeable?
take the unshakeable and stand in it
she was taught to be smaller but
she grew in it. she took up every room they told her to shrink herself in.
she became everything the labels of xs and s could never contain.
full of love & full of power