#MeToo
For the women with night terrors,
Bruised hips, fat lips,
Bodies that are turned into statistics,
Wrists that are put under a microscope,
For the women who have had the courage to be loud,
and those who have had the courage to be quiet,
For the women who seize up when they hear a distasteful joke,
and for those who have spent too long laughing along
because it is easier to say nothing
than to say anything at all
For the women who sleep with all the lights on,
who don’t leave the house after sunset,
the women who feel unworthy of love,
unworthy of legalities, unworthy of a voice,
unworthy of their own energy and time,
never mind that of others,
For the women who just want
to simply be women without fear,
without pain, without their guard up,
For the women who just want to simply be….
Me Too.
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Reproduced from Feminist Info