Male, female,
Society has placed us in cages,
To forever follow its wiles and woes,
To forerver dance the tune it has set for us...
Who defines our gender?
Who teaches the young ones? Who instills in them the ideas that:

Woman, shy, calm, always prostrate, begging...
An ornate and exquisite object,
She is made to glide, she is made to stand on her toes,
She is made to be a shadow,
No face at all, hidden behind a mask, a room, Suffocating in homely atmosphere,
I am a woman,
I refuse to be like a puppy,
Pushed and pushed,
Or a like a ship,
Twisting and tossed about by ocean's waves,
Give me the chance to rise, to shine,
To be equal in every respect.

And what of man?
Strong, manly, funny how it has become an adjective,
Made of steel, unfeeling and unmoved,
To be cold on the outside,...