The Time of the Awakened Woman
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When she discards her old ways like tossed shoes in the garbage, When she shreds her list of “shoulds” and obligations, And when impossible expectations are burned in an incinerator
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When the approval of others, once like precious jewels, now turn to pennies in her sock, When the hunt for another is now replaced by a hunt for herself, And when parental tentacles of tradition no longer define her truth
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When her desire to fit in with the crowd dissolves, When her manic compulsion to be perfect vaporizes, And when her obsession to be voted popular eviscerates
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When she simply says “no more,” When facade, artifice, and guile leave her nauseated And when righteousness, dogma, and superiority repulse her
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When she no longer fears conflict but faces it boldly like a lioness, When she guards her authenticity as fearlessly as she guards her babies, And when she drops the role of savior, knowing that only sshe can save herself
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When she no longer cowers in the shadows of her unworthiness, When she no longer plays small so others can feel big, And when she swaps the role of victim for the role of co – creator
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When she unabashedly and boldly occupies her ultimate sovereignty, When she finally feels ready to claim her space in the world, And when she redefines compassion as unequivocal self-love
There comes a time in the life of a woman, When she finally releases her childlike dependencies on others, When she dares to rewrite a new mandate of living for herself
One that says:
I release unworthiness and fear
I divorce servility and passivity
I divest inauthenticity and enmeshment
I end the pretense of being someone I am not
And from now on I declare . . .
I will ascend into my highest power
I will embrace my greatest autonomy
I will celebrate my deepest worth
I will embody my fiercest courage
and manifest the most authentic me
The time is now, I am ready, To awaken into my renaissance.