Women in many countries of the world are condemned to a life of near-slavery by men who think that there should be no equality between the sexes. The problem is most prevalent in Arab counries where sectarianism is dominant. Recently, in Afghanistan, a woman was whipped for innocently walking with a man, a punishment that can be termed as the outcropping of ignorance.
There’s a battle raging now
And going on and on;
It’s a woman’s moral battle
That must be fought and won.
No doubt, her passion to correct
Our world of ills and wrongs
Deserves the recognition that
She be where she belongs
Within the ranks of human skill
Where she excels and can
Compete with fervor equal to
Or better than a man.
How often has she well- excelled
But counted out and left,
Cold in the blizzard of despair,
Frostbitten and bereft.
Her deeds are trampled on, undone
By man’s injustice, crude,
Exempting her to hold control
Except that of her brood.
The centuries of old taboos
And fetishes of man
Till now sustain his arrogrance
And egotistic plan
That she be forced and held beneath
His status to uphold
Traditions strange to this new age,
An age not just of gold,
Nor money, nor his male prestige,
But one where she and he
Together build a solid front
For every soul that’s free,
Until the ills of ages past
Must turn to beacons of
Equality and justice in
The myriads fields of love.
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