Spilled Truths

Women are expected To stay soft To be selfless To adapt And to sacrifice But some of us Haven’t been soft in a long time Hardened by the burdens put on us by the world Exhausted from the expectations forced on us And too stubborn to act like we fit in anymore Some of us are As untameable as the sea As enraged as the storm As tough as the sun And as persistent as the wind This book is for us For the angry women The tough women The stubborn women The women who know they deserve better We are never alone Om forfatteren Ida Sophie Koch (b. 1994) is Danish born and raised but lives in Munich. She holds a MA in German and a BA in comparative literature. Through her poems she explores the sides of femininity often suppressed or tried erased, the strength that lives within us, and the tangled lines of a mind often tied up in expectations.