by Paula Werdnik
Unlearning
I learnt from a young age
that to be a woman
is to be water
melted silver
to be a woman is to take the shape of your vessel
contorting myself
into every shape
to be an extension
of someone else’s body
the first taste of not being enough
their words like polished scissors
clipping our wings
“this is what it means to be a woman”
what could be more integral
to becoming a woman
than the process of unlearning
the false truths that we were taught as girls
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