Transitions

A woman is often defined by what she is: Mother.  Teacher.  Employee.  Friend.  Wife.

I am all of the above.  I am also a reader.  A poet.  A student. An athlete.  An advocate.

One day, perhaps, all of the definitions I am will also become the whole of me.

This is not likely.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. — Richard Wright