“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)