Here's To The Women

 

Here’s To The Women

 

Here’s to the women

Who show up with casseroles

And tell us we are beautiful

When we cry the ugly cry.

 

Here’s to the women

Who sit in the silences

And take up the strain

When our arms are too tired to bear the load.

 

Here’s to the women

Who tell us we’re brave

When we can barely find

Courage enough to breathe.

 

Here’s to the women

Who love us, broken and flawed

On the days we can’t

Find the way to love ourselves.

 

Here’s to the women

Who show up with wine

And let us be silly

And dance with abandon in the living room.

 

Here’s to the women

Who witness our worst behaviour

And assume that though we’ve been fools,

It is not a permanent condition.

 

Here’s to the women

Who pray for us

And keep vigil in the

Quiet and dark spaces.

 

Here’s to you

Here’s to me

Here’s to us all, strong and united

In sisterhood and love.