Free Me?

Woman/Man
Doesn't this image by *Hugo* eloquently express our need to free both sexes without judging either? Can anyone tell what time it is? Time to act?

If I could switch to the other side

Of the sexual divide?

If I could be one of them;

One of those who have tried

To understand my kind

What then?



If I could awake as a woman

And mother a man

If I could be one of them;

One of those who have tried

To educate my kind

What then?



Would I empathize?

Or ruthlessly criticize?

Would I retreat in fear?

At the image of myself

judging myself?

What then?



Would I suppress?

Or viciously repress?

Would I furiously order

that I hide myself,

masking my beauty?

What then?



Would I defy?

Or sadly comply?

Would I passively obey

my unfair balance,

tolerating indignity?

What then?



If I could be them

Or they could me

Could they see?



If I was them?

Or they were me?

Would we see?



Do we see?

Do they see?

Who can see?



Who is the blind?

Whose eyes define

reality?

Who sees the truth?



The sons of superiority?

The daughters of equality?

The children of equity?



Who is free?

Who is bound?



Am I liberated or liberator?

Am I oppressor or oppressed?



Free me…

Free who?

Me? Or me?

Here is Now

If I could fly

I wonder where I'd go

Anywhere but here

That's all I know

There is better

I'd be more fulfilled

I'd be more appreciated

I'd be more thrilled

Oh! I can fly

Never tried to before

Always felt as if

I could do nothing more

There is closer

It's close enough to touch

I'll soon have everything

I've wanted so much

I love to fly

'tis the greatest feeling

It gives me such joy

And it's so fulfilling

There will be here

Here will be there

Nothing's impossible

To those without fear

I have to fly

I can't bear to fail

I must reach the future

By effort or sheer will

Am I there yet?

Here is endless

There must be better

Here is friendless

I hate to fly

It's too tiring

If I don't fly, I fall

And falling is failing

There is too far

I should have been by now

Here's a place to rest

I'm going down

I used to fly

I've never knew I could

I don't fly like I must

I fly like I should

Here is there

I get it now

Here is everything

Here is now