The Secretary Chant

In the poem The Secretary Chant the woman is feeling depressed. Everything that is explained in the poem relates to her because it has to do with things that makes her feel like she has everything going on at once. At a time she felt more like a woman when things went her way and she was happier. Everything in her life makes her feel like life isn't worth living anymore because she wants to be happy but at the same time is stressing about life. She feels that everything that is going on in life is being put on her and no one is helping her. My hips are a desk relates to her having burdens put on her and my ears hang chains of paper clips shows the meaning of how she feels. When it mentions her navel being a reject button, it is insinuating that she wants to not deal with anything in life that is going wrong. This is a girl that needs support in her life from someone that has went through the same things she has gone through. Talking with someone about how she feels and why she is stressed would help her. In her lifetime she was once happy but feels sadness from everything that is going on with her. She is a woman that needs to get out more often and let the sun shine down on her. At this time she feels depressed, lonely, and unhappy with everything. She needs to take time for herself and discover what she has going for her. Rubber bands form my hair that is mentioned in the poem shows that she feels as if everyone is nagging at her and constantly expect something from her. The word "once" in the poem is spelled with a W because it signifies the word woman. In my opinion the word Woman is used to express how one is. A real true woman respects herself, and doesn't take any crap. She's always on top of the world and in this poem the woman starts to feel bad about herself but needs to fix that. Something in life has made her feel this way about herself because of a situation. The weight of stress is on her shoulders and she needs to let it all go and realize that she can be woman again. Taking one day at a time will help her grow back into the woman she once was where she actually enjoyed life. This happens to people in life and they deal with things that make them stressed out but then can overcome what they are going through if they just take one day at a time. Her possiblity of becoming happy will not be hard to do because she can get through it all. In the poem it is mentioned how her head is a badly organized file because she has so much going on in her head that she doesn't know where to turn because of all the stress.
Facing another day might be hard for her at first but time is the key. One day at a time.