I Am Us

• Hayley Gordon, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2008

I am woman
I am Us
And Us is mans’ creation
I am weak
If he should ask
Us are thus complacent

I am blood and pulse
But We
We are skin and bone
And Us - ambivalence to touch
We savage, and alone

We burning bras
Burning flesh
Know not our own reflection
I am woman
I am Us
And I am without question