A Woman, Too

I wish I could be free,

From this torturous eternity,

Where whatever I try to do,

Will be unseen by those who see,

For I am a woman true.

I’d hate to try and speak my mind,

To free myself from this plight,

When I know that whatever I will try,

Could never win this fight,

For now I am a woman, too.

I cannot believe that you are blind,

To the fear inside my eyes,

For your suppression, I come to find,

Is here to silence my cries,

A woman used to be one of a kind.

Now I am nothing,

Unequal to you,

Except as a footrest,

To rest your new woman shoes,

I used to be a woman, too.