Women's Voices

Certain U.S. politicians, In particular, one man, Make me angry, but at least I don’t live in Afghanistan. Women there are banned from schooling And whenever they’re outside, They must wear a full-length burqa So their bodies they can hide. In a new and worse restriction, They are not allowed to speak, For their voices heard in public Would arouse their leader’s pique. Under Taliban control, all females Barely have a life, With their only purpose being As a mother or a wife. Our Election Day is coming, With a woman on the slate, Yet for even basic freedoms, Afghan women have to wait.