I drank the Kool Aid

I drank the Kool Aid.

I believed the demonstrations and the parade.

I wanted equality and all it portrayed.

We’ve lost ourselves in this grand masquerade,

Being mother, wife, daughter, doctor and maid.

We shout from the rooftops “We’ve made it”!

But, we’ve been played…

We bought into a system and all it conveyed,

Ignorant of the sacrifices inherently inlaid

In societies “upselling” our new “upgrade”.

Exhausted from the all the requisite role play,

We have now become completely bejade.

More better faster we have played.

We keep putting off the real serenade.

We have wandered, we have swayed,

From our hearts we have strayed,

The true feminine we have betrayed,

All for the sake of a higher pay grade…

But there is always a price to be paid.

When you realize your life has been one long charade

The tears escape in a tsunami torrential cascade

Mutual respect of our gender differences, grossly downplayed.

Equality does not mean that we are the same.

That message is outdated, it’s been overplayed.

The fight must be for more than what we get paid.

Our need to be visible has been preyed,

But our feminine knowing we must not trade.

Our power is greater than the will to invade,

Far more significant than the “mighty” crusade.

To find ourselves again, we must wade

Through the muck and and mud We have made

Our work is more subtle in this next decade.

Awake, together this tide can be swayed.

Lets create a new drink -that is not Gatorade

Homegrown organic sweet lemonade!