Rise

Hurts when I laugh sometimes, feels good when I cry.

Tell me when you're lookin at me, can you see the pain in my eyes?

Make up your mind, stop dragging me along

Since a child I was told, that men aint gold.

I refuse to be this PUPPET that you string along

Looking at myself, wondering where I've been.

But now I have found me

I come first and so does my happiness

I am Woman

No force is equal to my determination to rise

and rise, I shall rise

With or Without YOU.