When you first showed up in my dreams as a formless sensation.  Overcome by thoughts and feelings not imagery. Not a typical dream. It was a realization without the epiphanic imagery..  The transition into womanhood is what I thought.  I know most cultures feel that happens at menstruation.  If only it were that simple.  The deeper sense of feminine takes time to learn those boundaries.  It can be experienced as unfair, confusing, and as if one is disregarded.  No one explains things in these terms because the ones who know assume it is common knowledge. The ones who don't know figure ways to cope.



It's not what you think it's what you believe.  Patricia '96