Femininity

How often does femininity

Become synonymous with fragility?

Puissance gets painted pink

And mocked to the ground like dirt

You needn’t look far for contradiction

For the strength in beauty

For the grace in vulnerability

For becoming unmoored from your life source

And still, rising with the wind.

For drawing eyes to your corolla, blushing, paper-thin,

While you cluster with your sisters, uncompromising.

For being trodden into the soil

But persisting in retaining your poise.

There is a reason flowers are seen as womanly, girl-like, feminine.

There is a reason cruel hands will itch

To tear them from their home and crush them.

There is a reason some flowers carry thorns.

There is a reason some don’t need to.

Some fight with ammunition, some with a quiet mystery.

They might die in your palms, or at your feet

But they remain etched in your memory.

They might be fleeting, an ephemeral sight

But they evoke enough worship, and carry enough might,

That swathes of humanity will stop and wonder

At how something so fragile could hold so much splendour.

- as

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