We are Walking Angels leave letters in our palms Our hands Scripture We are Life Givers for Sacred Work We build in our bodies born of our daydreams who will one day tell our stories We tend to them in back and bathroom stalls Lullabies and hymns, we pray over them "May they be safe, may they be May be safe, may they be strong" is our song Our Mother, Sister, Daughter, Woman, song We wear wounded like badges of courage Carrying the weight of the on each shoulder lessons in battle scars We are Peace Our hips the framework for The foundation for Gods takes tangible form generations depend on the resilience of our bodies And will we tell them When boys owning tree houses grow up to be boys owning Boys who have forgotten their first home was their Mothers 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 a Woman is a violation against God A sin yourself, Karmic Suicide We are Sacred Geometry, Divine Pyramids and Not to be thrown away pearls to swine Meant to be not objectified We were not swayed by billboards beckoning from boulevard rooftops Photo shopped glam shots, clubs, and hot spots Skylines laced with messages Morphing our self-images into warped anorexic A gender biased agenda has us grooming for Days Eyebrows threaded, make-up applied, hair done, legs shaved, waxed, Push-up bra, high heels intact, and we will never get hours back Our reflection is not in red-carpet, main-street, stars It is in the Sky The Moon's soft mirror glows just past Mars are the Heart Beat of the World We are We are Mary Jesus through Jochebed brought Moses Aminah brought through Isis brought through Tubman brought hundreds through We are Our is infinite Our voices are of light Our hearts, our harbor, Our songs far and We are every continent, every smoke and psalm, prayer, every element, Day and We are Earth, Air, Water, Let us ourselves Be our own the fairy tales So Sleeping Beauty wakes her own self-up, Slays the dragon, at herself in the mirror and says "Princess, I you!"