I try to speak but the words fail

I cry out, but to no avail

There is a hand over my mouth

That keeps my screams from coming out

I have no voice, no way to proclaim

My anguish and suffering and my shame

I try to speak out, but on deaf ears

Not literally, but by careless peers

People who don’t care about my plight

People who see my suffering and get delight

I cry out, they don’t want to hear

I scream out, In my darkest drear

Now don’t get me wrong, People do come

When they want to use my body, get them some

I try to speak out while they are using me

They ears are even closed as they are misusing me

If they would open their ears just for a second

I would scream out forget the mythical legend

I am not a sex object with no feelings

I am not put here for your sexual dealings

I am a woman like other women, who cry

I am a woman like other women, who die

I am a woman like other women, who bleed

I am a woman like other women, who carry seed

I am a woman like other women, who need love

I am a woman like other women, what’s the difference whereof

The only difference between me and others

Is people’s ideas and stigma that covers

The women of color in america

We’ve been branded saddler

We don’t have to fall into that slot

Made to wallow in the slop

Let us rise from the mire

Be real women should be our desire

They won’t give it to us, let’s take it

Change the negative views, and forsake it