Friday, July 23, 2010

Lessen

Make me less of a woman

Less soft and more firm

Not so smothered in feeling

A rock undisturbed.


Free me from being a woman

Slave to moon and tide

Undo mood and desire

And all their lies.


Make me less female, girly

Needing a man’s caress

Thriving on word and gesture

Make me less.


Call me andric, ascetic

Eusocial as an arthropod

Wanting no affection

Pure as a god.


Take away curves and cravings

And love songs played in my head

Stop up my teary eyes

To be stoic instead.


Make me less of a woman

I hate to care so much

To want his arms to hold me

And feel his touch.


Make me less of a woman

And if you can’t then please

Give me someone man enough

For all my needs.


(c) 2010 Tasha Chinnock

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