A Higher Calling

You came into this world                                                                                            needing to be fed, changed.

Care, concern, consideration                                                                                                                                                                                                                        by those around you.

Then you became less                                                                                                                  dependent and more defiant.

Assets and Liabilities 

depending on being 

born male or female.

Some see each as 

life generating, 

one life limiting.

Generations past 

heralded the birth of a boy 

as continuation of a family name, 

the passing of property.

Women just a vessel 

through which this goal became?

Some give more power 

to those who carry the "seed".

 

Others believe it's not in sowing 

it's in the cultivating we achieve.

If procreation is the only 

measurement of worth. . .  

what's to be done 

when a woman fails to perform?

Generations of women                                                             lived as subservient                                                                     first to fathers,                                                                         then to husbands. 

They had no individual value, 

they weren't even an extension,

 

They were breeders and instructors, 

staying home, given an allowance, 

expected to follow, never lead.

Why turn back the clock, 

reverse direction.

What's the purpose?

Did we make a "U Turn" 

somewhere since the 1950's?