Woman

I am a woman.

It is complexity of gender

Which makes me state emphatically

This most simple of facts.

I am a free woman.

I take a pill to control my body,

To keep it free,

To stop any man owning me for longer 

Than the span of his pleasure.

I am a young woman.

I am careless if not carefree 

I have no lines across my face

I have the future, 

No matter how brief or long

To dwell on. 

I am a person.

Of nature unspecified, 

Of love undersigned 

Of consideration given and taken.