Echo
It's an echo of society
it instills this insecurity
and encourages us
to fade into obscurity
to accept medicority
lest we be criticized
to refuse idolization
a compliment little more than
a test of your womanhood
to refuse is to seek reaffirmation
an unacceptable show of feminine weakness
a turtle in it's shell
grown on it's back from the origins of doubt
to accept however is little more
to accept is to be a whore
too confident and too vain
why the very idea that a woman should love herself
is simply insane