Laugh
Don’t laugh
For you’re breaking roses with that smile
Thorns gonna scar your skin
And no woman
Sweet like blackberries
Stains
So permanently
Like you do
Dance
Don’t dance
For those notes of grace
Between your soul and the earth
Prints
Upon your clay
Yours alone
Ain’t enough
And no woman
So freely expresses
Herstory
Like you do
Sing
Don’t sing
Bird song gonna pierce like an arrow
Through my bearskin
Stripped
And no woman
Can sew neatly
Fix
Like you do
Listen
Don’t listen
For you know
Hear to hear
The sway of thought
Feeling
Like you do
Like a woman.
