I'd Rather Be Human

Surrounded by women
Who speak beautiful words to the harsh aching ears
Of other women, who listen and grasp their ideals.
And focus on them too hard to the point where they
No longer see humanity.

Since when is it ok for a female to feel powerful
And for a male to have to stand down because of it?
Since when is it ok for a woman to say that a man
Can do crime that a woman cannot commit?

But I thought you were all mighty!
You're a woman!
You can do anything a man can do,
Well that is also true in the negative spaces!

Beautiful women, such beautiful women
And yet, I find them all unattractive.
Not for their gender
Not for they faces
But for the spirit that rots beneath flesh
And still finds its self superior in every
Way to ANY man, though she still tries
Desperately to find one.
To hold one.
To please one.

She continues to tell other women that they've been
Subject to brainwashing because she doesn't
Believe that a man can be raped as a woman can!
A man can't be abused as a woman can!
A man cannot BLEED as a woman can!

A beautiful woman who tells me that I must stand
Beside people she calls my 'sisters' and preaches
Constantly of equality that she cannot stand to
Give back to a person because they are male.

Gender is not a defining beauty or a disease!
Gender is not a shackle or chain that keeps you from
Being all you can be!
Gender is not a judgment on how you must live!
Gender is NOT a superiority complex tied with pink
And lavender ribbons and given to women as a gift
And to man as a curse because they are all HUMAN.

WE are all human.

You say you're proud to be a woman?

I say, I'd rather be human...