A Woman's Strength Poem by chantelle ribeiro

Lying half dead
A broken being in the gutters of life
Paralyzed by its cruelty
But in your eyes
A glimmer
A flame that slowly
builds into a raging fire
You get up
Lick your wounds
Scream your rage into the heavens
And when you are done
You dust yourself off
Believing once again
in hope
In Love
In the beauty of nature
You lift our head in defiance,
stare your enemies in the face
and say:
ENOUGH!
Woman
You are strong
Strong as the ocean tides
You are a rock
Though chipped in places
A force to be reckoned with
A woman's strength is her character
A woman's strength is her heart
A woman's strength is in her vulnerability