If no one else understands <br />Not even your man <br />Or your own children <br /> <br />If no one else understands <br />Surely a woman can <br />Because in war, our rights are the first to go <br /> <br />If anyone should avoid political unrest <br />And strive with a country trying its best <br /> <br />If anyone should avoid political unrest <br />In a country that is trying its best <br /> <br />The responsibility upon the head should be that of – <br />Everyone <br />Why? <br />Because we all came out of woman <br />And when unrest comes her rights are the first to go <br /> <br />I am a woman <br />I like having my rights <br />I like being able to walk about at night <br />By myself <br />I do not want a police or any other state that keeps me prisoner <br /> <br />I like this country <br />Because in this country I have my rights <br /> <br />I don’t ever want those rights to go away <br /> <br />So please before you speak <br />Even in drunken stupor <br /> <br />Please remember that you came out of me <br />Out of woman <br /> <br />And when you wish for violence <br />My rights, our rights, women’s rights <br /> <br />Are the first <br />Always the first <br />The first to go <br /> <br />Thursday,22nd September 2011<br /><br />Michelle Freeman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-wise-woman-once-said/
