I am the same woman

Identity

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt is about different aspects of your identity: wife,  mother,  grandmother, ex- civil servant,  artist,  poet,  Essex girl..... whatever, and how you feel powerful in some roles but vulnerable in others. As I was reading the prompt a poem I wrote back in 2009 jumped into my brain and refused to budge; so I'm cheating a little bit and not writing something new today. 

I am the same woman

 How you have changed - but I'd recognise you anywhere!

I look at my reflection and see silvering hair,
A growing etching of lines on my face,  but know
I am the same woman inside. 

I am the same woman
Who dreamed of the future
Who worried about everything
Who believed in the importance of truth
Who respected difference, and
Needed her friends. 
I am the same woman inside. 

I am the same woman
Who marched for her causes
Who struggled with insecurity,
And the challenge of children, 
Who dreamt of utopia whilst knowing her frailty. 

I am the same woman
Who escaped into books
Who aspired to the summits
And loved without shame.


© Copyright 2018. Chris Auger. All Rights Reserved.




Comments

  1. Elizabeth Boquet7 April 2018 at 09:43

    That's not cheating. That's sharing poetry ;) which I think is the whole idea of NaPoWriMo -- or at least a big part of it.

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