W.I.T.

W.I.T.

What is a girl?

Sugar and spice makes nothing solid

It cannot be on its own, cannot be something great

What is a girl?

Delicacy and fragility are impractical

A soft spine cannot support its own weight, let alone a friend

What is a girl?

Downcast eyes cannot see the beauty of the world

Downtrodden people cannot stand tall

What is a woman?

Compassion and strength go hand in hand

Kindness is not weakness

What is a woman?

Silk over steel, arms that lift and carry and scrub and help

There is value in hard work and teamwork

What is a woman?

Eyes alight with the wonder of life

A firm stance, a foundation that cannot be shaken

What am I?

I am a woman-in-training

Obligatory feministic poem.  I don't consider myself a feminist, really, not in the colloquial sense.  The traditional, original feminism, however, is something that I identify as a correct way of thinking.  A woman is human.  A man is human.  I wish that people thought in terms of "human", not in terms of "man".  Humankind, rather than mankind.

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"Nothing is quite so pleasurable as doing the impossible."—Unknown

—L