Woman

Woman, if your ideas are on the rise

Don't be surprised, they will call you

All kinds of names on prime time

Woman for pursuing and defending your human rights, 

Defying the status quo,

And denouncing corporate lies

They will pass laws to gag you

Or invent surgeries to mime you

They will beat you into compliance

In the name of science

Then they will kiss your bruises

Swearing he only abuses

Because you done something wrong

In the name of love , 

For reasons of  national security

To protect us all

Woman it's been 100 and 1 years of recognizing

March 8th as the worldwide day on which the patriarch

Showers you with cheap brain candy,

Hangs a murdered animal around your neck

Silences your heart with another shiny rock

Devalues your life 

With self hating aesthetics

The terrific slaughter

Of our brown grand daughters,

Just to cleanse your soul

From the truth, like lava rising  from your throat

To protect us all

In the name of love,  

Woman, if your ideas are on the rise

Don't be surprised, they'll call you a whore

On prime time.