I was taught it was the lines and signs of aging on my body I should be preventing, erasing, and smoothing out. But it was the deep lines and signs across my spirit, that I've come to realize, I should consider more. Lines drawn in the sand, lines crossed, lines branded, lines conditioned into me. Every where I looked I saw contradiction, as to what it meant to be a woman. The conditioning is where I should start going to work, I should anti-age that spot right there. Go back and get a rewrite. Use the fresh eyes of my youth, paired with the wisdom this woman has gleaned through her years, to see through. I should dry up that brain wash, that conditioning I took as a young girl that I should bear the load of the world on my back humbly and smooth the lines on my face at the same time. That I should be weary of my age. As though being expired was upon me. Being a woman has never been irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, no matter her age. So if you wanna erase some lines and signs, try the ones that have poisoned our hearts, spirits, and minds.