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This spoken word is in dedication to International Women's Day 2021. The theme for 2021 was #ChooseToChallenge. Choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievement and challenge gender bias and gender inequality to create an inclusive world.
mirror mirror
on the wall,
i don't need to be
the fairest of all -
but just to all the women
that came before and formed me,
for they fought for a glimpse
in the looking glass and
forged space for us daughters
to rise so we could see
our own reflections grow
between each sunrise to moonlight
and when i look at myself now,
i see courage
birthed from her pain,
immeasurable love
nurtured from loss,
wisdom found
from being lost -
a woman borne from her
life's stages and ages...
and the longer i gaze
into her eyes,
the more her face
multiplies:
mothers, daughters, sisters
that i knew, know and am
yet to meet -
you see, this mirror holds our collective resilience
more than our
individual vulnerabilities -
its fragility doesn't define our breakability,
but projects us
as rarities -
faces full of the force of
womanhood
shatterproof faces
like porcelain,
i’m carved with shards of glass
that do not bleed
but seeps into the waterways
under my skin;
they hold centuries of women’s
stories untold –
and when provoked,
we unfold, undo, unweave
the challenges beset upon us
so that the only challenges
in front of us are the ones
we set ourselves –
to be bolder,
louder,
prouder
than ever before,
so that the only thing that could ever
shatter is the mirror
from the thundering choir of our voices
challenging you
to look at yourself
and
reflect
choose to challenge
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