Run Like A Girl

 "Run like a Girl"

When they say this to us, they want us to think it is an insult.

Oh Fuck, you know what?

It took me years to figure out that there is no shame in running like a girl.

We are told, in many cases shown that we are but prey.

We run for reasons that boys, men will never know. {Not sexist, just fact}

My before? I have seen much, I should not have. 

Would I change any of it? 

Yes, and No.

Hear me out?

Yes, as there is still pain that comes from the "injuries" that never fades. 

That I made it through?

Yes, I did, more or less alone. 

Why No? 

Because no one should ever go through the shit I did. {That is an entire different post}  

I keep thinking that I will end up burned at the stake again, over some thought, word, or deed?

Worst of all? 

What if I cannot protect those, I have come to care for? 

I now fear this Time-Space. 

No more can one live their Truth. 

They must hide if you are not like those around you. You must learn to "blend", as I have been warned over and over. 

I Do Not Want Fucking Blending. 

I have spent far too much time working on not only myself, but all the things around me, to where I can thrive not just exist. 

How dare Pumpkin Spice Palpatine and all those like him, think he can make us feel small?

Doubt ourselves?

Doubt the Power we have always held inside our very Souls?

I feel that he fears what cannot be controlled. 

Guess what? 

I am by nature UNGOVERNABLE.

I am the one that will do as she must, but really do you want to turn your back on me? 

I would not advise doing so to any of us. 

We were raised by the ones that knew their worth, who helped us see ours. 

And no small, minded being will take that away.