to bear it all. By Piper Mullaney
to be a woman is to experience womanhood in its rarity desperation intimacy danger and agony its heart wrenching completeness. the tiresome entirety of it all but to be a sister is to experience this sacred bond threefold. through the lens of your own and anothers. to bear fruits you know so well like the back of her hand and ones so foreign they feel like a stranger in your own home. sharing and seeing the same sorrow but being consumed by the pain in different ways. the weight of these burdens are rare to be equally distributed. sometimes your shoulders slouch, roll forward and tilt under the intense pressure, but always she will bear more. a silent conversation within a glance saying,
we bear it together
but she bears it all so you can straighten the length of your spine, standing tall standing steadfast womanhood
having only a sliver to burden.
sisterhood a generational bond
so intricately intertwined and to share these intimacies these tokens of girlhood with a sister you would bear it all too.
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