How Long

How many have you come home from a long day at work and get no response from the ones you love? How many years will you keep that awful job where you get harassed by men who think they’re better than you? How many months will you be punished for paying rent late because your husband never paid it, like you asked him to? How long can you keep being ignored, having your work ignored just because you’re a woman? How many emotions do you deal with holding them all inside, never letting them show? How long will you ignore your worth convinced by the world you’ll never be anything more than you are now? How many jobs will you quit Trying to escape the ones who tell you these things? How long will it take for you to realize that what they think and say about you doesn’t matter? How long until you put yourself out there, and get noticed Prove them all wrong, because they’ve always been wrong about you? How long until they realize that they’re wrong and apologize, begging for your forgiveness, because you run the world?