Fully-Functioning Woman

I am your Mother, sister, niece, fiancé, wife, girlfriend, chick
Quickest of release, sometimes quickest of quick fix,
Your inferior, rival, subordinate in business
The Mrs, one you do or don’t miss or moral-less Mistress,
Your ‘fun-time’, your ‘sometime’,
Sometimes only your ‘one-time’
Secret tears silenced strong, yet
The one who’s kept you in- line,
The Venus vigilante you fail to pay respect
The responsibility your ego enforces to protect,
Your comfort zone, home from home when both our owns’ connect
Who encases all of your concerns yet accused of an overly emotional wreck,
The backseat to your pass-times, testosterone, fellow brothers
Defined as significant other,
Female who fulfils the function of Mother,
The who you condemn but lust for as a vision of vanity
You crave and love it but refer to private parts with pure profanity,
12 periods a year, subjected to pain blamed as menstrual
We’re yours and our own warriors; whether in pain or sentimental,
Expected to be submissive, voiceless, yet head of the house
Bounds to being emotion-less when angry, agitated or aroused,
You cheat, lie to, and disregard, yet take offense at assumption
Regardless of the short-comings- I’ll always be a woman to fully function.

Author: La-Donya Henriquez