I Am A Disabled Woman, Both Soft And Strong
Yoalah Brinson 1994 (Dimona)
I am a disabled woman.
I am soft.
I wear my heart on my sleeve and protect it from others.
I listen with my eyes closed and let stories wash over my skin like rain.
I speak my emotions to life,
let them run wild like horses through an open field.
I do not fear or hold back.
I am soft.
I’ve learned to love like I am malleable because love does not stay still and stiff.
I try to be gentle and kind,
fill my heart with the spirit of patience.
I trust because I don’t know how not to.
I care because to feign indifference makes my chest ache.
I do not know how to love with less,
how to be cold and distant,
how to hold others at arm’s length.
I am a woman with a big heart –
I am soft and not afraid to love.
But I am also strong.
My body is fluid,
Rolling to the rhythm of the songs on the radio,
humming in the light of the sun.
My laughter flirts with the wind;
my voice gets lost in the clouds.
My heart is powerful,
a deep beat quickening with every measured step,
pumping faster as I pursue all that I believe in and care for.
I love wildly, but not naively.
I care passionately,
but always purposely.
I am soft, but also strong.
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Written on January 19, 2024
Submitted on April 14, 2024
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,172 |
| Words | 267 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 5, 1, 5, 7 |
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