I Am Alive
I’ve healed from the curse you gave, but endless words flood my paper.
Lines I will never be strong enough to say in real time.
I feel your blade pressed in my flesh, but it empowers me to retaliate.
The power I never had then.
I feel fragments of you everywhere I am, but I am evidence that I lived.
I survived the likes of you.
I recognize that you weren't caught, but you acknowledged your actions.
It soils your soul with a heavy price, in this life, or the next.
I have cried alone at night, but my empathy blossomed.
Emotion is a powerful gift.
I feel silenced by your dominance, but I am growing taller than trees.
My voice cracks like thunder, empowering ears with great noise.
You killed everything I was, but you created everything I am.
I am a survivor, a force, a mentor, a sister, and a daughter.
A survivor with the voice of a million women.