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If We Dance

(#InternationalWomensDay)

 

a circle and a cross

the symbol for Earth has the cross inside

but this is close enough

to know

the movement is planet-wide

there are things that

don’t need new reason

for dealing with the ancient one

 

there is gender

women number more

the feminine make up half at least

of who we are

one by one

and altogether

who are we without

we are not whole

we countermand creation

 

what other gaps cannot be filled

with sex, yes, and

decision

 

we are strong

and strength will out

muscle and what’s beneath

indifference energized

to charge the fight

for what should be evidential reason

 

someday a woman will preside

over the table

as a woman did, once

and long ago

inviting her will be

forgone

by then

let women rule

no let about it

women can and will

 

seek the alliance now

call it marriage

friendship

partnering or

of a presidency

in place and time

 

call it quits on

masculine oppression

give up the gate

that she has managed age

by age

the less-than-half survive

through what she does

the rest, the most

already know

 

let her in

before she keeps the rest away

celebrate the whole one

we can be

 

C L Couch

 

 

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