I am a woman

Stuck to the wall like a piece of gum

Festering alone in rot

Stepped on, squished, smushed

Politics determine what someone does with their body

Their chance to exist without burden

Taken so easily and quickly

Don’t tell me this country respects women

Don’t tell me this world cares for women

You see us and you want one thing

We’re just a candy bar at a store

Easy to grab and devour whole,

Forget the agony, the regret, the torture that comes with it

Forget that your mother gave her life for you to live

After all, she’s “just a woman”

Men repeated the idea of Eve being born from 1 of Adam’s ribs

Because they couldn’t accept that women created life

There is a reason she is called Mother Nature

We are destroying her, but she is only a woman

You are only, a woman

And being a woman isn’t a concept or feeling

It’s knowing you can’t win

You can’t stop the suffering whenever you want

I know I am just gum on a wall

But people won’t listen to me, they’ll walk right by

I’m not much different from a woman.