I AM A PRIVILEGED WOMAN

Tread carefully. Satire ahead:

“I am a privileged woman.

My father decided that I was going to be an engineer

Because I was smart enough for an education

But all I ever wished for

Was a vocation in salvation

Because life is too hard and I don’t get enough credit for my propaganda Against mean people and selfie sticks.

I am a privileged woman.

My shoe soles have no holes.

My human soul has never been barred behind bars.

I have been groped in bars.

Touched so gently, mouth pressed against my ear, whispered

The three words every girl wishes and prays she hears at least once in her life

“spit or swallow?”

I turned around just mesmerized

Got down on my knees and realized.

If I gave up my Bachelor’s degree or my gag reflexes right in this moment

The world will watch either of the bonfires with equal amusement.

I am a privileged woman.

I learned early on that in an ideal world

Dogs would rule the internet instead of cats

And that human sexuality is a wild roaring beast

And I let mine free

I let mine play

Not tamed- never tamed — she can't be tamed.

Just free

To be who she wants to be.

But you

You defined her

You confined her

Never realizing there wasn't a cage big enough for her

Slut?

Never a word loud enough for her.

She is not a whore.. just whor-ny.

I am a privileged woman.

Not pretty but pretty for a brown girl.

I will catch you eye on Tinder

And after the soul searching heavy breathing eye gazing

You might take me home

‘Cause I am pretty for a brown girl

And after the jaw juddering mind numbing love making

You will crawl up to me

Whispering in the hush of a lullaby

“Hey are you clean though?”

I will smile

Because I could love you like a fire that threatens to rip the soul apart but doesn’t.

Doesn’t, just barely.

But instead I will always be

5 shades too dark

5 ways to intense

5 pounds too much

How much is 5 pounds anyway?

How much less of me do I have to be

For you to love me more?

But at least my shoe soles have no holes.”