Hush

It’s nice to be me
you say I’m a what?
a woman?
am I?
don’t want to be that
just want to be me

We’ll need you 
to act like you want it
not being a woman 
but everything under it
Manipulate, fight with the others
Suffer if you really want to earn your title

Shhhhhhhh......
I like to be sweet
lend me my voice, 
I won’t ask to be free
but, I can try jealous girlfriend monster 
wife material, 
cunning, if it pleases

I can pit us against each other
for the love of you
I can hate my best friend
my daughter
my mother
I can make them all end
In agony

I can win

I am no secret
no woman and I
nothing like a flower
when we gather our stormy eye, 
then comes the hour, 
to flatten the earth
in a downpour of power
every living thing 
shall be
never nourished  
not in our name
we could shower light 
onto no one with this reign
no more
not I
not this woman
am I?

Hush now.....
ladies are waiting
this sad rivalry out
women are sleeping 
everywhere but the earth 
yet dishing out plenty of dirt   
we bury our birthright
to carry each other in love
like this we can 
never win