Postcards from Paradise: Girl Power

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Be Nobody’s Darling

Be nobody’s darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap it around
You like shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
Watch the people succumb
To madness
With ample cheer;
Let them look askance at you
And you askance reply.
Be an outcast;
Be pleased to walk alone
(Uncool)
Or line the crowded
River beds
With other impetuous
Fools.
Make a merry gathering
On the bank
Where thousands perished
For brave hurt words
They said.
Be nobody’s darling;
Be an outcast.
Be qualified to live
Among your dead.

~Alice Walker

~Thanks Sister~

 

For More Postcards from Paradise Please go to Rebecca’s Blog at recuerda mi corazon. You can visit all the other sisters there too and a few brothers who might have some postcard to share with you.