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What Other Women See
When other women
look at my life,
This is what they see:
A woman brave to be on her own,
A woman completely free.
You see, with no
man in my life,
Which sometimes can be a drag,
Women don’t see the empty part
That results from going stag.
They say I answer
to no one,
Can come and go as I choose.
Sleep in, stay out, not come home at all,
Be myself with nothing to lose.
I explain that
part of the reason
On my own I must aspire,
Is because I have struggled to be myself,
To speak as my heart requires.
In lieu of arms
to hold me,
I have learned to love my life.
Validation, respect come from within.
I’ve escaped my previous strife.
Instead of tears
I have come to learn,
One day things will come clear.
I will gain balance between life by myself
And with someone who dares hold me dear.
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