A woman

Just as I let you be, you’ve let me be too, the way I was..

I spread my wings to fly across

the world, as if it was all one, all mine, my very own..

That’s how my parents to me the universe, when I was little, had shown!

That my sister and I as princesses would forever stay

Queens we’d become too, not anyone’s anticipating, but just because we’d grow up one day

For the men in our lives would be to walk not behind or ahead, but with us, along

As a partner, a friend.. for love, companionship, happiness, to each other comfortably belong

Not for us as women that we’d have or need to, on a man’s shoulders depend,

But that marriages mean a union of two genders equal, to set this example to the world

Just as we share our lives together, the pleasures and burdens are both of ours

Not that the man would have to earn the bread and I ought to stay and fix the food indoors

For I could on my own pay off those loans, and electricity or water bills and have my personal bank accounts

Not for every penny I’d have to ask for, none of ours’ duty’d be to do or not dishes or laundry, or seek permission to run errands

For children, a woman wouldn’t be labeled as the only nurturer

Our roles would be of parenting them.. to be their mother and father

I could just not care about grooming myself, or perhaps participate in a pageant if I’d so want

I could workout or roam around with a fat, big belly, unless for health reasons, but not base it on the societal definition of acceptable norms by the male counterpart

I could still walk elegantly, accept compliments and flowers, be bald, wild, cry out my lungs or laugh out loud

Get piercings or tattoos or have the longest hair.. as long as it’s ok with me how I wanna look and not worry about what I’m told & what’s not allowed

But I must remember to take pride in my gifted womanhood, I don’t need to man myself up, just because I wish for genders to be equal

Indiscrimination is not disrespect or putting someone down, it’s about letting things be.. just the same, for a boy or a girl..

All women for this reason, just like a strong guy, unless so is her interest, don’t need to join the army, hold guns & weapons

Because if physical strength is what alone decides who’s able.. periods, pregnancy, labor pains.. invincible is also her threshold of tolerance!

I don’t want to change the world, but wanna just let go of manmade differences between us.. to taboo what’s considered ‘taboo’

Not to interchange our roles we play today, but not to hold back ourselves from what we can or wanna do

And as husband and wife, all our decisions would be as our married hearts and souls, made by us, just as one

None superior or inferior, together as one head of a family, bonded with love, as a man and woman!

And just the way I let you be, you’ve let me be too, just the way I was

I spread my wings to fly across

the world, as if it was all one, all mine, my very own..

That’s how my parents to me the universe, when I was little, had shown!