78-82. The cents to a dollar, facts and truth.
And yet we say some spectre has manifested, and that there is no proof.
Is it right? Should struggling single mothers cut corners to feed their worthy kids?
Should children that stay with her be forced to have less than they could if they stayed with him?
And to those who say that women simply have positions with a lower wage,
There are bosses and CEO's who see but the "F" and throw away the page.
There are institutions high in rank who turn away a woman's mind,
In place of men, in place of image, no matter skill, or how smart, or how kind.
Men handle danger! Men handle toxins! Men deserve money for all of these risks.
I've seen women extract my very own blood, nevertheless handle raising their kids!
We harbor excuses, objecting the truths for we cannot destroy this extensive illusion.
Acting in ways and believing such things we are all but proclaiming our countless abusions.
Can women not function like sentient, sovereign humans on a level or standard like we do?
Truly inferior, our thievery, it's their fault? Like everything they do? Our innocence makes due,
Our ignorance bleeds and our ricochets bleed through. Projecting iniquity, monsters, we see you!
Trying to come up with anything else but the thought that a woman's disadvantage could be true.
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The Wall Which Cannot Break
PoetryThis is a collection of poetry that I submitted to Button Poetry's 2018 Chapbook Contest. It focuses on gender inequality, the oppression of females, and the struggle for women to break the wall built between them and men to keep them below.
