Hello friends, Today, I offer you a poem in honor of International Women's Day that I wrote last year. Hallelujah for the women who have come before us, and those who are paving the way now. ~ The Ground Beneath Her Feet~ each step is taken with a different woman's foot a sweet child innocent of pain the woman going to confront her fears a painted hong kong whore the shy lover me walking home a wizened hippie whose hair flows freely the woman who just can't leave a mother who knows whom her life is for a step. transform. a step. transform. now i walk through tahrir square, witnessing a revolution... step/transform now i carry water home from the village well my sari swishing around my ankles... step/transform now i run along the beach in blissful first world peace... step/transform now i walk in sure-footed confidence in the jungle that is my home... step/transform now i click-clack on the glass ceiling in my power-hungry he
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