To The Woman Poem by Edmund V. Strolis

My favorite people are men and women, boys and girls, Grandfathers and grandmothers, aunts, uncles. This business of equality is not something to be given to you, not something to force upon ignorant minds. Equality comes with self-awareness, integrity and a bold confidence that does not need a group or a banner to move under or within. No the woman knows her self-worth, she never questions her equality for she knows her worth and subscribes to the belief that those that may find disdain for her political beliefs, her values, her views on marriage, her common sense approach. She is rightfully suspicious of those that would black list her for holding onto traditional beliefs on motherhood. Suspicious of the Hollywood crowd that pretend to speak for her as if they were chosen ambassadors that were somehow given the right to say what should or should not be believed. The man, the church, the system, the history are painted with a broad brush by simple minds. Small people that are to be pitied for the bubble that they are unknowingly suffocating in. I hear the so-called tolerant people berate and belittle those that dare to think independently. A true woman knows her worth and nobody can shake her belief. Her happiness does not come at the expense of others but from the love that she finds from those good people that are blessed by her very existence.

Thank you Nosheen, You know I have seen the grace first hand of women that are both bold and compassionate with integrity and an indomitable spirit. Their is a partnership that is sometimes lost within some cultures as well as entire civilizations. A certain warrior macho persona that relies upon the dominance and subjugation of all things, women included. Freedom, true equality and liberty of thoughts and actions must transcend this with each generation if in fact the true worth, the true potential and the true essence of a woman can be realized.