Who’d be a boy today,

who would seriously want

to have the pressure of living

up to past endeavours by both

distant long ago relations, their successes

and their attitude;

why would we still install that engrained

outdated attitude into them

that boys are better than girls,

when if not equal then girls,

as Tiresias maintained,

have the true pleasure of life

and should be lauded as so.

 

Why in a world that needs more compassion,

more courage not to be driven by the pursuit

of fiscal notoriety, of brutal response,

of letting go of the anger

and wrath, do we encourage girls to be equal

to the boys, when we should be giving

confidence to the boys

to embrace the feminine within.

 

Ian D. Hall 2016