My eyes were open to the reality but I took a moment to dream

By dreaming, I closed my eyes to the truth

Hoping to make the dream a reality

Fool that I am

I mistake the dream for reality

The consequences I must pay

If only my eyes were closed and I never had to see

The consequences of my momentarily lapse

That haunts my reality

I am awake now

No more dreaming or lapses in time

No illusion or pitying cries

I am a woman

I am a woman no matter what

I am my mother's child

I am not Leah's daughter

Reduce to begging for her husband's favor

A woman unloved

I am a woman with choices

A woman with eyes wide-open

To the realities of life

My life, and so I choose