How many women have cried over blood?
Pouring out of us:
Feminine power come and gone.
Stained tears drenching:
a life desired that hasn't yet come
a life inside us that has been lost
a life inside us that we fear hurt
a womanhood we don't feel
prepared for.
Monthly battles inside us,
sometimes fighting, sometimes crying.
Seeing more blood in one lifetime
than those men of war;
sometimes after days of counting,
or hours of anxious analyzing;
here comes the sea of oxygen
palpitating out.
Drop of water
red within us, out of us-
Leaving our world,
joining the cycle,
our fragile femininity,
our powerful tides
giving
to the world.
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Inés Beamonte Cosín (she/her) is a writer, poet and performer. Her work has been published in Spanish and English for Dichtkunst Magazine, Brevísimo 2, and A Surrender to the Moon. She recently placed first in the short story contest CIJ “la Salamandra” and was also a finalist for Nuestra Musa La Camelia leading to her poems being published in the second poetry anthology by the publishing house Literate. She published her first novel with Editorial Tandaia© in Spanish (VIVIR SIN MI) with distributions through Spain and South America. She lives with her husband in Stockholm, Sweden.