By Patty Tacuri
The strength we have to carry as women
is obscene.
Endless expectations weigh on us,
generation after generation.
We are buried in the burdens
that society has placed on us,
since before we were born.
Be pretty but don’t show your body,
Be smart but we don’t want your opinion,
Be motherly and nurturing,
but still a working and productive member of society.
It is a never ending nightmare to try to reach
the ridiculous standards placed upon
our beauty, wealth and motherhood.
Some of us seem to do it with grace;
some of us are barely hanging on by a thread;
and quite a few of us would rather die
than continue with the facade and the myth
of a balanced woman.
Riadh Magazine 
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