We are Prayers Angels leave love letters in our Our hands Scripture We are Life Givers meant for Work We bodies in our bodies Babies born of our daydreams who will one day tell our We tend to them in back and bathroom stalls and love hymns, we pray over them "May be safe, may they be strong May be safe, may they be strong" is our song Our Mother, Sister, Daughter, Woman, song We wear wounded hearts badges of courage Carrying the weight of the world on each Collecting in battle scars We are Treaties Our hips the framework for The foundation for Gods magic takes form Future generations depend on the resilience of our And what will we them When boys owning tree houses grow up to be boys owning Boys who have forgotten their first home was their womb Took first breath in the embrace of Her Arms We must them From our Breasts you fed, We are Shelter, We are Our are Holy Ground So violating a Woman is a against God A sin against yourself, Karmic We are Sacred Geometry, Divine and Astrology Not to be thrown away like pearls to to be honored not objectified We were not always swayed by billboards beckoning from rooftops Photo glam shots, night clubs, and hot spots Skylines laced with messages Morphing our self-images into warped anorexic A gender consumer agenda has us grooming for Days Eyebrows threaded, make-up applied, hair done, legs shaved, waxed, bra, high heels intact, and we will never get those hours back Our reflection is not in red-carpet, main-street, stars It is in the Sky The Moon's soft glows somewhere just past Mars are the Heart Beat of the World We are We are Mary brought through Jochebed brought through Aminah Muhammad through Isis Horus through Harriet brought hundreds through We are Our love is Our voices are made of Our hearts, our harbor, Our songs far and We are every continent, every signal and psalm, Every prayer, element, Day and We are Earth, Air, Water, Let us celebrate Be our own the fairy tales So Beauty wakes her own damn self-up, Slays the dragon, looks at herself in the and says "Princess, I you!"