Kylie Padilla Instagram – The most powerful poem I’ve written so far. For all the mothers, women who have passed the “age limit”, the women that the media neglects, the women who feel unseen and silenced. This one is for you. WOMAN Why would I be ashamed of my body? I have nothing to hide I’m no longer an image of purity I’ve been used and I’ve been had I am no longer what you consider whole with virginity I am no longer suited for that pretty white dress So why pretend to be modest? I am woman and I am wild I always have been I just needed to make you believe I tamed the roaring beast Cause I was taught to be the princess in all the fairytales But I have bore children and fed them with my breast And once you share blood You learn how to growl and how to protect I claim the ugly and the gritty I claim the passion in my femininity I love pleasure and I love my body I love making love like it is poetry I love how I sag and the tiger marks that scar me That give a whole new meaning to what it is to be pretty I may not be the image of youth But I have gained wisdom and ingenuity Maybe you like when girls are meek and malleable and suited to your liking But I love women with teeth Who own their whole being Who don’t give a f*** what the world sees Why would I be ashamed of my body tell me? After all it has always belonged to me After everything the whole world has told me a woman should be I stand here raw, naked and bleeding As wild and as free as I was born I have run through the depths of hell to get to this heaven Baby, I am a whole different class of what it means to be woman I’m in the league of warriors and witches Bound and broken and covered in stitches I have been burned and cursed And tortured to the state of insanity But I am woman and I am mother I am the essence of mother earth I am woman and this, THIS IS MY POWER. KNP Shot by @hellodarling.ph Make up by @marvinfernandezmakeup Hair by @jobendinglasanhairstyles ✨