Thoughts On the International Day of Women 2025
by Michael Doyle

Equality leads to an empowered community
Well behaved women seldom make history
But it is woman in all her nobility of voice
That must make her own way and through choice

A muffled chorus rises from mouths of silence
That have too often been muffled by the violence
Of the echoes of anguish breaking through the stone
Veil of isolated whispers for which all man must atone

They say the future belongs to those who who have dreams
That are filled with beauty bursting in their seams
Women must learn they are never inferior without consent
And that their femininity offers the world rare talent

It is a talented balance of nurture and ambition
Like a tree stretching skyward without inhibition
Each woman a well of courage feeling limitless
Like wings That have soared into a sky that is endless

The threads of sisterhood carry an invisible load
This is the tapestry stitched by the shadowed road
The fevered lunacy jewels of the hungry hallucination
That lead women forward until they have conquered sensation

Feeling each other's hands linked across all of time
There is a unity and solidarity that is sublime
The mystic river carves it's untroubled tapestry
Until the glass ceilings rain their shards of mastery

Every father knows that the fight for equality today
Will become the echoes and reflections of tomorrow
I think of this holiday I hadn't known of in any way
And try to be part of the solution to ease the sorrow

In the eyes of two daughters who are always in my heart
It is necessary for them to know their worth from the start
And like stars sharing the sky they must help each other glow
That their chorus of voices have the power to reap what they sow

(c) March 8, 2025    Michael Doyle
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