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Women’s Day

While the world celebrates women
for their strength, courage, and achievements,
let me speak about something quieter today… their vulnerabilities
because a woman’s hardest fights are rarely with the world but most often,
they are with herself.

The silent battles she fights,
the tears no one ever sees,
the doubts hidden carefully behind practiced smiles.

And among those women,
there is one I know closely.

Me.

I am a woman
bold and fearless to the world,
yet strangely powerless at home
where even the smallest choices
feel too heavy
to speak against my parents.

I am a woman
who rejects a perfect man with quiet certainty,
yet spends the whole night crying
for someone
who was never looking back.

I am a woman
who speaks loudly about freedom,
yet finds herself willingly surrendering
when it comes to love.

And in this journey,
there are men who quietly shape us
fathers who teach us strength,
brothers who protect us,
friends who guide us,
and Love which is always there to mould us.

We may appear independent,
yet still return to them
for strength,
for reassurance,
for love.

But being a woman
is not the absence of vulnerability

It is the courage
to rise above it.

It is choosing
dignity when pride demands a fight,
self-respect when attachment begs us to stay,
kindness when the world rewards victory,
peace even after surviving trauma.

And still standing.
Still shining.
Still choosing strength
at the end of the day.

Today my Poetry is a reminder that even with all our vulnerabilities we are still powerful.

Happy Women’s Day

— Rajini Gajjela