DON'T CALL ME A YOUNG WOMAN

I Love You

Excerpt from a poem by Ruth Harriet Jacobs

“Don’t call me a young woman.

I was a young woman for years

but that was then and this is now.

I was a mid life woman for a time

and I celebrated that good span.

Now I am somebody magnificent, new,

a seer, wise woman, old proud crone,

an example and mentor to the young

who need to learn old women wisdom.

I look back on jobs well done

and learn to do different tasks now.

I think great thoughts and share them. . .”

ART: LJ Austin “Change” 2017