Oh woman please hear the heart that beats
In your chest deep beside dreams and your idleness
the fire poker you have used wants to hear you defeat
all the things you have held when you had nothing less
Oh woman please, feel the pulse of your brain
As it sings for you to go out and dance in the rain
While the wives in the rooms are numb to the pain
Of the things you have seen in your mirror that gleams
Oh woman please, sing the songs that you had
Back when they all said your soul was a fad
That would pass in good time if you’d only let go
Prove to them that your spirit wasn’t for show
Oh woman please, find the rooms in the bed
Where your mother gave birth out in the shed
As you cried for the arms of the god that is gone
Sought the street that no woman ever has swam
Oh woman please, take the road that you need
While the shackles you love they will slowly bleed
And you will dance on the isle where you are now freed
Hope’s a shell for the unicorn which died in the reeds
Oh woman please, pull the sand from the shore
While the spinster woman plays meaningful chords
And your body is yearning for you to explore
All the dark little holes that no one has seen there before
Oh woman please, seek the sun in the moon
Though the search makes you dizzy and swoon
And the ashes of things that you left for dead
Start to creep in your heart through your head
Oh woman please, shut the door to my room
For your presence makes me smile too soon
You are stronger then I will ever be
So take my sword if you it will please
Oh woman please, love only yourself
Though you must put your friends up on the shelf
Where they will scorn you for all time and will sling
Arrows at you- don’t mind their attacks
Oh woman please, be as strong as you can
When you go take the world in your hand
Don’t let the fiends tell you horrible lies
For I know you will win if you don’t compromise
Oh woman please, let me take down you life
To the pages of fate that are worn and off-white
And sing your ballads to the children of old
And let you rest in the Valhalla of gold
Oh woman please, shake your fist at the gods
Let them hear your voice let them suffer in vain
As they beg to be strong or as weak as can be
Let them see in you the power of pain
Oh woman please, taste the ambrosia of you
See the world covered up with your dew
That comes from your teeth and your tongue as you draw
All the things that you love on paper of moss
Oh woman please, save yourself from the sea
Which will drown you in everyday life and duty
Place yourself at the head of the silk caravan
As it pushes through the desert like a arrow through sand
Oh woman please, kiss the sun it won’t burn
Know yourself and that’s all you need learn
And the sandpaper issues will fade in the light
Of the bright pearly moon of a love frosted night
Oh woman please, you haven’t committed a crime
Only balanced yourself on the edge of a dime
You have all that you need buried deep in yourself
So I shall go and be alone by myself
Oh woman please don’t concern yourself with me
Ignore me and find the path to be free
I will watch from afar as you sleep in the sun
With your soul in the trees and in your pocket a gun
I feel that I must say I wrote this while reading Kate Chopin's the Awakening, a proto-feminist novel from the 1890s. So that might give you a hint about what I'm saying.
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