Women: are they in Binders?

         
Gentle is the touch of a woman's hand,            
as she glides expertly in the abyss of perpetual darkness            
emerging from the sea of tumultuous clouds,            
and spraying the rows of thirsty palms            
along the blazing desert of inferno            
with a deep bass and chattered sound, stuttering...            
like an old sewing machine, stitching to the ground.            
             
If the hand that pulls a trigger and kills without empathy            
   belongs to a Woman,            
does it make any difference?            
Women have greater compassion and sensitivity            
according to some clinical study            
Taking lives-- not giving, sustaining and nurturing;            
is it a cultural shift not in the right direction?          
         
Women in society, are they in binders?            
    They give Life,            
            sustain Life,            
                    nurture Life...            
         
Somebody claimed he had a binder full of women;      
it makes me wonder what they can do--      
For as long as they are just in binders,      
in oblivion will remain and voiceless forever.      
     
Women who demand equal pay and equal rights            
send the unexpecting into a whirlwind of confusion;            
while those who are gender-biased and narcissistic,      
may find it hard to swallow and comprehend...            
 
Don't women deserve anything greater?            
For sometimes they could led better            
either in combat or office settings, and many more...      
Let's ask Lilly, for she knew then--it's now or never.            
             
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  (Author's note: this is my tribute to our women combat pilots and to Lilly Ledbetter)          
          
       
       
                    Photo source: racialicious.com