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?
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