Aisha Raison - Speaking in Cursive and Other Adventures Of Little Girl Blue: Little Girl Blue

little girl blue

with a kid on my hip

a bag on my back and 

a pen in my hand

no longer feminine and feminist

now womanesque and womanist

i became myself and 

loved myself and

embraced myself all by myself-

can do with you or without you 

and don't get me wrong - i love you

but in that same breath i still breathe

but i won't stop living just to grieve 

the loss of love i once recieved

only later to find i was deceived

with girley mess girls try to achieve

as relationships go to seed -

excuse me as i celebrate 

my womanhood and femininity