Praise them! Praise Women! <br />I read his words, then I cried, O these lies <br />How can a woman’s love lie only between her thighs? <br /> <br />Foremost I admired him, his work was set on another stage <br />Later I concluded his words of women were words of rage <br /> <br />Praise them! Praise Women! <br />For on the faces of all women you can trace <br />The elements of sacrificial suffering in their gaze <br /> <br />To hear him say women are libidinous <br />Is not hilarious, rather I deem it as outrageous <br /> <br />The women we all know have it tough <br />Every aspect of their life is embroiled with rough <br />Life cycle periodic pains and yet enough is not enough <br />Their agonising vaginal birth anguish isn’t a bluff <br /> <br />Praise them! Praise Women! <br />Why curse the women that raise thee <br />Wait for you blindly in love while you are at sea <br />Aid you in your visions of where you want to be! <br />They bring us joy, love and peace <br />Something I request no one to dismiss <br /> <br />If only he could see their potential essence <br />He may have appreciated their very presence <br />On earth, women’s love is the voltage of balance <br />The very reasoning of all kinds of romance <br />They give rise to our population <br />By endless copulation and multiplication <br />Which in turn gives rise to all the nations <br /> <br />Praise them! Praise Women! <br />We need them in our mist! <br />For without them we cannot exist <br /> <br />Praise them! Praise Women! <br />Praise onto the women that raise thee!<br /><br />Sylvia Chidi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/praise-women/
