Blessing/Curse/Woman

[RiverNotch]

1. I dislike the title. It weakens the refrain. It gives away the message too explicitly. It sounds kinda hammy and inappropriate (it's too blunt, I think, to fit the sharp style of the poem, and the slashes, I think, don't fit with the style of the poem). You should change it.
2. The long lines are too long, I think. The poem has very sharp imagery ('until I am bone and skin', 'lens....distorted to imperfection', 'existence is catastrophe'), but the long lines make it sound heavy, and so, blunt, which I think is a muddying contrast.

Because I am a woman,
I am expected to be an impossible version of myself. This is a bit prosaic for me. A good image here would work just as well, I think. 
Because I am a woman,
Every lens I look through is distorted to imperfection. A bit nitpicky: the lens is distorted? Eh? 
Because I am a woman, I feel the refrain here is unneeded. 
I try to turn every ounce of hate for myself into love for you, I think this line should be shortened. Again, the image here is sharp, but the length of the line really weakens it.
Until I am bone and skin. Love this.
Because I am a woman, I feel the refrain here is unneeded.
I was taught that this is the only way I would get love back. 
Because I am a woman,
The only way to be happy is to call for an uprising, Again, I feel this line is too long, and I don't think uprising is a strong enough word. It sounds too melodic. 
To fight an unholy war until I return to the soil. The metaphor here sounds broken. A different image -- I'm thinking something more playful in sound ('the only way to be happy'), less metaphorical in terms of imagery (perhaps be more explicit on the issue of body-image?), but just as sharp in message -- will work better here.
Because I am a woman,
My existence is catastrophe. This needs to be developed -- in the context of what's already been said, 'catastrophe' is just too strong a description. Either add to your descriptions of relationship woes in the second block of thought and your descriptions of an uprising in the third block of thought, or just change this altogether.
But because I am a woman,
I am strong enough to survive. Good ending, but so far I haven't really felt anything that will hamper the speaker's capacity that much. 

Overall, strong poem -- the mood and images you're trying to transmit are really there -- but I think it needs a good deal of development still, while making its sound sharper, to better fit the tone. Thanks for the read!