SIMONE

Simone de Beauvoir said that women
Belong to the second sex...
I think I belong to the first one...
I am not afraid of being weak and I
Don’t need to be strong.
I just want to be me and to be me means
To be absolute and free.
Nobody can decree who I am,
Nobody can write my story,
I am the subject of my life,
I am my own glory.
And if I have to lose in order to gain,
I prefer to die again and again.

Karla Bardanza