We are Prayers Angels love letters in our palms Our hands speak We are Life meant for Sacred Work We build bodies in our Babies born of our who will one day tell our stories We tend to in back seats and bathroom stalls and love hymns, we pray over them "May they be safe, may they be May be safe, may they be strong" This is our Our Mother, Sister, Daughter, Woman, song We wear wounded like badges of courage Carrying the weight of the on each shoulder Collecting in battle scars We are Treaties Our hips the for families The foundation for Gods magic tangible form Future generations depend on the resilience of our And what we tell them When boys owning tree houses grow up to be boys owning Boys who have their first home was their Mothers womb Took their breath in the embrace of Her Arms We must remind From our Breasts you fed, We are Shelter, We are Our Wombs are Ground So violating a Woman is a violation God A sin against yourself, Suicide We are Sacred Geometry, Divine Pyramids and Not to be away like pearls to swine Meant to be not objectified We were not always swayed by billboards from boulevard rooftops Photo shopped glam shots, night clubs, and hot Skylines laced man-made messages Morphing our self-images into warped fantasies A biased consumer agenda has us grooming for Days Eyebrows threaded, make-up applied, hair done, shaved, bikini waxed, Push-up bra, high heels intact, and we will get those hours back Our reflection is not in red-carpet, main-street, stars It is in the Sky The Moon's soft mirror somewhere just past Mars Woman are the Heart Beat of the We are We are brought Jesus through Jochebed brought through Aminah Muhammad through brought Horus through Harriet Tubman hundreds through We are Our love is Our voices are of light Our hearts, our harbor, Our songs far and We are continent, every smoke signal and psalm, prayer, every element, Day and We are Earth, Air, Water, Let us celebrate Be our own the fairy tales So Sleeping Beauty her own damn self-up, Slays the dragon, looks at herself in the and says "Princess, I you!"