I came across this poem today. It is on a site for abused women and children. I pray that we are women who portray more to our daughters than this sort of worthlessness and meaninglessness.
From birth to womanhood
All I’ve known is the hard side of life. But never did I take my eye off the finer side of life.
From birth to womanhood
I’ve been made to feel like my existence on earth is meaningless. Not much love was ever poured out to me.
From birth to womanhood
I was programmed to feel that, no matter what I did in life, I was nothing. So I feel as if “I am nothing.”
From birth to womanhood
Learning to love myself in an uncaring world has been very hard for me to achieve. When you truly don’t love the person looking back at you in the mirror, who can truly love you?
From birth to womanhood
Now that womanhood has surrounded my inner being, I’m learning slowly to love and respect me. And trying to change the negative being that entered into my mind, body and soul.
From birth to womanhood
One day, I rise-up a changed woman, at peace with myself, the world and my creator, God almighty.
From birth to my real womanhood.
- Teresa H.
