“Woman Melanesie”

- Sarah MeCartney

I am everyone, yet I am no one,

A shadow in the light, a whisper in the storm.

A fleeting echo in the halls of time.

I serve, yet I am silenced,

A silent sentinel in the night.

I am beaten, yet I breathe,

A flame that never dies.

In the hearts of many, I reside,

A force unseen, yet ever-present.

I am the strength in the weak,

The voice in the voiceless.

I am woman,

A paradox of existence,

A dance of light and shadow,

Forever rising, forever falling.

BIO: Grown in SHEFA, anchored in TAFEA, evolved in Vanuatu.

Melanesian Women Today Prize for Women's Poetry - Sarah Mecartney (Woman Melanesie)

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