This is the poem you've been avoiding sweet girl...
You don't wanna tell people all these secrets, but...

They all took my hand, shook it
told me their names and where they were from...

First they told me that I was lucky,
I wasn't a woman in the Dominican Republic...

I’ve grown weary of my own sad,
there are days where not even...

Sometimes,
you know there is...

I fear this feeling,
as hard as...

It all starts when they say “It’s a girl”
They give you pink, give you glitter...

Yes,
I look tough...

It took me years to make peace
with always being the elephant...

At the end of the day,
I’m only a woman after all...

I don't get along with my mother. My father was a...
back to life when I flew back to my homeland. I'm...

I rose,
above anyone who ever shamed me for my talent. Who...