Poetry Tuesday #3

Poetry Tuesday is a new weekly feature at Krystal's Enchanting Reads, where I will post new poetry that either I have written or that I have come across in my travels over the internet and wish to share with the world.

I wanted to share this poem because when I first read it I was blown away and loved it from then on. Every time I read this poem, I feel powerful and proud to be a BBW. So many people look down on big beautiful women and treat them as if they are something less than human. It's time we all stand up and stop with all the hat just because a woman is larger than what one person believes to be beautiful. I am a proud BBW and I hope this poem speaks to others just as it spoke to me.

Power of Being Big

by Gwen-Nicole O'Neal

I am Big and Beautiful

I have curves like you've never seen

Yes, when I walk, I jiggle

I have lots of Junk in my Trunk

I know where I shop

I know what I eat

But when I put it down

It cannot be beat.

You girls that are 1's and 2's

You do not know the pleasure that is me

My sisters that are 20's and up

Know the pleasure of not giving up.

We strive in a world that looks down on us,

We persevere in a society that wants none of us.

We love like no other

Our style can not be beat.

You tell us we would be pretty if we lost weight

Maybe if you gained a pound or two

You'd understand the glory that comes with being us.

Our skin is smooth

Our shape is curved

We don't need plastic surgery to give us an ass,

We do it Au Natural,

We do it with Class.

So this is a call to all my Big, Beautiful Sisters.

Stand Up, Stand Proud.

For we are the true leaders of this land.

We love from the heart 

Not our eyes.

We dress for ourselves

Not for society.

We are Big

We are Beautiful

We are WOMAN!