it's all about self-fulfilling weather systems
it's about being female and knowing you're in control
it's about seeing your grey hairs and a belly that's given life to children
and knowing that you're beautiful

i can spit into the wind
i can bed a man who's only lived half my years
i can scream and i can laugh and i can cry
i can be who i am

i make my own weather systems because i am powerful
a hurricane one moment, a tornado the next
i can shine like the sun on my babies and my man and my friends
so that they feel warm and loved

and when i'm wrapped in my young lover's arms
where passion is beyond the constraints of time and place
where there is no earth, no work, no past, no future
there is only this moment
and there is love