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Turn in turn again

So hard to be a woman,

expectations that put a burden of silence

a quiet pall of whistles, touches, looks.

Harder to be a man

in changing times,

not to know what's acceptable

What does "no" mean?

why the prosecution for something

once only thoughtless and common?

Harder to be a woman

with babies on the breast

so judged by other women

for everything we do. We are harsher

then men to each other.

Because we have higher expectations.

Harder to be a man

growing up to be a man tough or

growing up to be a man gentle.

This is more confusing, wrapped in expectation

where there is a world here and across the way another world.

The twistflower of the world signals only change

as always

what is right becomes wrong, what is wrong become right

in the blink of Buddha's eye.

Buddha