Mind for Man

Tell me, how differently would the world spin

If we went back to where we begin

and find the first one who had the gall to say

that being is woman is being a sin.

It could have been a man,

scared of what she might become,

or a woman,

who would rather be numb

than face her own strengths.

But it doesn't really matter.

The first on to get knocked down, beaten

told that her gifts only weakened

given labels she didn't want and her titles taken,

her confidence utterly shaken.

Her position made patronizing,

her voice silenced,

until all that was left,

was a ticking time bomb.

Tell me, if you can,

what she could have achieved,

if she hadn't been told,

that a mind was for man.