Queen

You call me a queen

So when you say that to me

Realize that it means more than you might know

It means that I will never be used up or broken

Because resilience is my strength

Like Aphrodite or Cleopatra

Isis when I say my love is infinite

My body is a temple

And no matter how many people have visited it

It will not lose its magnetism, It’s power

My thighs are the lintels to an altar

A cunt

And before you react to that word

With disgust like you have been taught to do

By centuries of lies

Listen

Cunt is a word for power

In Egypt high priestesses were named so

So it only makes sense that when

The invading armies came

To steal the power from the source

They had to change the connotation

This is not a confrontation but more of an invocation

Of truths hidden and destroyed

Because the truths women tell are powerful

Our stories our truths have been suppressed

Our power corrupted by those who seek to tell us

That our bodies should be the privileged gift we bestow

Upon men who love us

But know this

I will never feel ashamed of my sex

Because it is powerful

A supernatural fiery force field of fuck

And no, that doesn’t make me a slut

And yes, I’ve been called that before

But before you jump to conclusions about that

I’d like to share a perspective

Because I’m salacious, the kind of lover

You can’t keep quiet about sometimes

Unrepentant in that while I need to be more careful

About protecting my heart from people who are just trying

To use and then lose me…

The title of slut that they brand me with

When I am the one that decides they aren’t worthy of being lovers

Any more or at all stings but does not cut deep

Because queen that I am

My skin is tough

And if slut was a broken bottle of wine on the pavement

And I was barefoot and running

It would not cut me

Because my soul is tough

Millennia of lies have made it resilient

Shatter proof glass on my ride

So when I have arisen

From being dead for years now

And the two new souls I have acquired

Join the very old one I was born with

I am reborn and born into the body I have

And I cannot be ashamed because

Infinite truths are mine

And I would not trade the despair or humiliation endured

For the power they give me

To continue on.