From Alice Walker’s poetry book, Absolute Trust In the Goodness of the Earth, the first in the subsection “To Be a Woman.”
To be a woman
Does not mean
To wear
A shroud;
The Feminine
Is not
Dead
Nor is she
Sleeping
Angry, yes,
Seething, yes.
Biding her time;
Yes
Yes.
Alice-walker released To Be a Woman on Wed Jan 01 2003.