Nurtured by the society
And all life has to offer
With or without a father
We strive for success
Until we progress
Phenomenal women
Born of a woman
Back in the 70s
We were rejected for so many things
Ripped off of our rights
The weaker vessels
Made to work mostly at nights
To them, we were as useless as expired goods
But we were born in the hood
They thought
No advice was needed to be sought
Phenomenal women
Born of a woman
We were born in pain
Majority die in pain
Our fears we face
With tears and disgrace
What’s the secret? We were always asked
Not knowing we were pain sacked
But we say,
In the cry of child birth,
The bites of breastfeeding,
The nurturing of we
Phenomenal women,
Born of a woman.
Neglected and rejected
By the ones our heart abducted
By the ones we bore
Even with sores
By the mouth of men
That will still say,
What’s the mystery behind your beauty?
All we do is laugh and respond,
In the pain of love
The cry of birth pain
The cry of our time of the month
The cry of heart breaks
Phenomenal women
Born of a woman
Under the sun, we shout
Under the rain, we toil
For our daily bread we struggle
Insulted and humiliated
We still shout, war a oja
Fighting our fellows
In order to put food on the table
But in our wrinkled faces,
Our pain and beauty is,
In the pain of our voice,
In the swear that we make
In the fight that we entangle in
The strength in our weakness..
Phenomenal women
Born of a woman
We hide our flaws with pride
And later at night, we die in our cries
Undisputedly, we must survive
To reach a desired state and sublime
The marks on our hips
The pain of our waist
The endurance of our pain
Is where our beauty lies
Phenomenal women
Born of a woman
We are not adored or cherished by men
Men that we bore out of pain
Kudos to those that died
Leaving us our leaders of tomorrow
Exaltation, should be ours
Celebrating the women in us
Phenomenal women
Born of a woman
We worth more than what we behold
Unlike tales of old
That are only told
Just to the unknown
Our value worth more than bags of gold
And so, we should not be sold
Phenomenal women,
Born of a woman
