Elevating Womanhood

The creatures called men have usurped power for so long,

Enraged when we demand equal treatment: are we wrong

For pushing back against forced patriarchal subordination

When the Creator deemed us the portal of all civilization?

Are we not nurturers and educators to daughters and sons

Who bear upon our shoulders life's burdens by the tons?

We've battled within the crossfires of obsolete convention;

Quiet riots for the rights to our bodies given little mention

By media outlets dominated by tactless male counterparts

Who feel entitled to lord over our lives, careers, and hearts:

In their hierarchy, the softer sex is no more than property

To be bartered or adulterated, never an important entity...

But without woman, sacred but oppressed and maligned,

Would man still exist, or simply cease to retain his mind?

She proffers balance and commands the utmost respect;

Exclusion is a blatant injustice all females fervently reject!

Our wombs and voices will continue to yell and proclaim

Equality or death until masculine peers treat us the same.