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It pains me to see all this female rivalry 
Competitors in a race to snare a man,
According to the family plan
Created by a suited man, past
And down generations fed and bred
Into ever losing minds as space becomes narrower. 
Expand!
Explore!
MAKE A FUCKING IMPACT!
Keep yourself in tact
Don’t retract
Accept the facts
React
Believe in where you’re at. 
Dream
Detach
Put out but put it back. 
Sister, relax. 

Why is it that we lose ourselves?
Why we get all tangled up?
As the web weaves
Breathe. 
Feel. 
Are you not screaming on the inside to be?
Then allow yourself your destiny. 
I wonder, ‘Will there be enough to take mine?’
For I aim high
Regardless that she sighs. But,
No need to pass judgement on she 
Or me
We need to let her be. 

Assert!
Be alert!
Hell, wear a skirt or a floral pink shirt,
Wear your hair short,
Long
You chose the shorts or the sarong 
Don’t wear a bra,
If that is who you are and where you belong. 

A reflection reminds that you’re there
Stay there
For it is where to look hard
Look deep
Don’t just peep!
See it. 
Feel it. 
Hear it. 
Touch it. 
Breathe it. 
Be it. 
LIVE IT. 

Sister’s, it pains me to see all this female rivalry 
When there really is no need to be
If we are to be
Just we. 

(1998)