Woman

She wanted to be a blade of grass amid the fields,
but he wouldn't agree to be her dandelion.
She wanted to be a robin singing through the leaves,
but he refused to be her tree.
She spun herself into a web , and looking for a place
to rest turned to him...
but he stood straight declining to be her corner.
She tried to be a book, but he wouldn't read.
She turned herself into a bulb,
but he wouldn't let her grow.
She decided to become a woman,

and though he still refused to be a man...
She decided it was all right.


~Nikki Giovanni