What if I were

What if I were a little bit bolder?

What if I were a little bit meaner?

And I don’t even mean meaner

I simply mean being direct

What if I took as much as a man?

Swore as much as a man?

Was as angry as a man?

What then?

Would I reach my full potential?

And I am a woman, comfortable

in being a woman

but if I existed beyond the smallness of

what is socially acceptable

and I took what was mine?

What then?

What then might I discover of me and would I like her?

I don’t know but I think I have to try