"Powerful Island Queen" - Bahamas AI Art
©A. Derek Catalano
Women Are Not Weaker
They said a woman’s voice was soft,
Too gentle for the storm,
Too fragile for the weight of truth,
Too tender to transform.
They said her hands were meant for lace,
For quiet work and prayer,
Not lifting stones of broken worlds
Or building futures there.
But history whispers otherwise
Through centuries of flame,
Through mothers, fighters, poets, queens
Whose courage shaped our name.
For strength is not a single form,
Not iron, sword, or shout,
Sometimes it’s holding broken hearts
And still not giving out.
They say a river carves the stone
Because it flows so slow,
Yet mountains bend before its will
Though centuries must go.
So too the steady, patient force
Of women through the years,
Who turned their quiet suffering
Into a tide of tears.
And tears are not a weakness, no,
They water seeds below,
Where empathy and wisdom
And fierce compassion grow.
For those who feel the deepest wounds
Can mend them best again,
And those who carry pain with grace
Learn how to strengthen men.
