Be a Cow

I should fear, I should hide I should obey and abide. I should behave when I'm out, Masks, hijaabs, drapes and shrouds. I should read but not write, Not confront but shimmer with fright. I should learn to not hate and let You make me warm your bed. I should never raise a voice, Should never aspire of heights to rise. I should not fight but be hapless; My person should be my dress. I shall wash and I shall cook Bear your children, I shall stoop. Duress, care, feeble, weak. Your stronghold should I always seek. I shall follow but never lead If there's hope, I shall not heed. You shall trample, you shall play. Rape or kill, have your way. Strange though it seems, the way it has been. Maybe I don't complain, but couldn't you have seen. This age of worship, rage and anger that I see now I wonder you'd listen, if not a woman I had rather been a cow.