Like a Girl!

I hate the ‘P’ word.

You know the one –

P. U. S. S. Y.

Why?

Because

It reduces

seduces

diminishes

and

decimates

it seeks to control

overthrow

ruin and distort

the female form

– a portion of her power

into the going rate

of your verbal hour

Do you call a man by his bits?

Do you get props and rises for diminishing his shit?

No.

Men and women

use the word

equally as much

Negating her function

to a disembody word

of destruction

to reduce her to ‘it’

as in

make it drip

reach out and slap that shit

hit it

bend it

pull out your fraction

and divide it.

Then use it to

emasculate

abbreviate and

tear down

the other soul

in masculine form

through insinuation

that in this tirade

man would see it as

a degrade

as if being called a girl

in any capacity

is something

horrible and

unworthy of

any one…

Don’t you see what has been done?

Don’t you see the abuse?

And don’t give me that excuse

that respect surrounds it

when you use it – bull shit.

So let me set the record straight.

I ::insert any word here:: like a girl.

Every thing I do is

like a girl.

Because I am

a girl

And what I have done and am going to do, will what?

be. like. a. GIRL!

I’ve seen the world

gone from west to the east coast hittin it

speaking a number of languages

hiked to the top of 2446 steps of God and made it

dreamed dreams

seen them sprout

blossom and be

fragrant

caught home base and

made ‘em hate it

shaken steppin to the plate

cuz I owned it!

skied down mountains in a blaze

trippin up to gold

on my way down

as an

Olympic.

painted

sculpted

met CEOs and Queens

Carried Shrines of God

on my shoulders

in the rain

Mastered the arts

visualize the degree

set my spit on fire

Sank giants to their knees

the list goes on

the conquests of my world

But… guess what…

I did it like a girl.

So the next time you utter

the word I will not mention

or seek to degrade

a person by gender

I suggest you think twice

what your words mean

and to this end

think of your mother, your wife,

child or girlfriend

would you diminish her

for a moment in the

spot light?

Instead remember truth

and let it unfurl

There is power and strength

in being. a. Girl.