Posted: Dec 27, 07 4:59pm

I am too strong

I cannot mold myself to you

I cannot mold myself to anyone

I am a lioness, a grizzly bear, a she-dragon

I was never good enough

Eighteen years of daily discouragement

Eighteen years of every day beatings

Emotional, not physical, but the scars are the same

I grew, I left

I learned that it was not me that was incompetent

But my mother

Her daily debasements made me more competent than she could ever dream of being

But now I am too strong

Men want women who cater and please

Men want a Little Woman

I did not survive to be that

You admired my strength my courage

What did you think

That was my outside face and inside I was soft?

You thought you could change me?

Last night you cornered me

You think you won the battle

I bled a little but not from fatal wounds

You woke this morning strutting like a cock in the yard

I am too strong to let you win the war

I will be complacent for a while longer

The children not yet fully grown

I can bide my time. I outlived my mother, I can outlive you

So crow while you can

I am simply waiting

Time passes, wounds heal and scar, add one more

Pain is not fatal

But I advise you to be careful

I am still a lioness, a bear, a dragon

A rooster is no match

I am too strong for you