It's an expectation that females are flawless.

From childhood we are taught this.

We fantasize of marriage

and our babies in their carriage.

As young boys

play  with military toys,

girls play with dolls

and dream of royal balls.

Girls aspire to be like princesses

with the princes they caress,

while their brothers play in the mud

and learn of wars of blood.

Daughters are raised with hopes of finding love,

while boys think of the careers they can be a part of.

For holidays, boys get fire trucks and G.I. Joes

and their sisters are given frilly clothes.

Females are raised to impress

and to be the damsels in distress.

 

Why can't we be our own heroes?

Why can't we have the lives we chose?

Why must we find men to support us

instead of being taught that all we need to live is us?

 

It's an expectation that females are flawless.

We continue to be taught this.

As girls become ladies,

they look for men to make babies.

They smack their lipstick

to look like a woman a man would pick.

They bat their eyes

in hopes of finding that Mr. Right.

They spend hours getting all dressed up

to impress men from the country club.

Why are girls the ones who have to put in the work

to find one of the few guys who isn't a jerk,

when the guy can roll out of bed,

put a hat on his head

and walk over to a girl and make her his?

 

Why does the woman have to put the effort in?

Why do girls have to work so hard to impress men?

Why do men expect so much?

Because so many men were never taught about love.

 

It's an expectation that females are flawless.

It's an idea that has always been expressed.

We clean the house when it's a mess.

At work, we must perform higher for our success.

We must manage our children's progress.

Wives must maintain their finesse.

Many women have but one request:

that their husbands help reduce their stress.

 

Why must mothers manage the household?

Why must women work jobs twofold?

Why must wives continue to work at home when their workday is done?

Because men would rather sit back and have some fun.

 

It's an expectation that females are flawless.

this idea I must protest.

Society shows women that they have to be their best.

Men can work their nine to five and girls must do the rest.

Young girls should be taught of the potential they possess.

If raised like this,

the role of all women should progress.

Nonetheless,

women are not born to be flawless.

They are shown to be like this, yes.

 

There is one thing that I must confess:

I did not wake up like this,

I did not wake up flawless.