Equal, Not the Same

The woman tried, they ran and kicked, That national soccer team, But up against fifteen years old The lost, and so did a dream, That thought could change all by itself Evolution’s age-old laws, They hadn’t strength to match those boys Though they struggled tooth and claw. And though I may now speak in vain: You’ll find we’re equal, not the same. The boyfriend tried to hold it back, To be the man she claimed to wan.t But things grew colder, day-by-day, Until she ran out on a quick jaunt. He later found a strange number Lay present on her phone. He followed her and found her loved A thug fierce, and roughly-honed. That white knight vanished in a rage, He learned to be equal, but not the same. The young marine she wished to fight On the front line with her brothers, No one doubted her courage or zeal, They doubted something other. A valiant try she made at camp, But slowly met travails. The soul could not undo the body, The young marine, she failed. We did not doubt that she was game, She was an equal, but not the same. The new father, he tried his best To quiet his screaming son. He loved the little guy to death, But had never dealt with age one. The boy he screamed ‘til mother came And somehow the child soothed. The father frowned and sighed aloud, He’d yet to find his grove. And as his wife and child played He said, ‘I’m equal, but not the same.”