A Poem for Women’s Day – I wrote this sometime in 2013
Glass Ceiling
by D. Samarender Reddy
Ours is the age of democracy
Intolerant to the ways of autocracy.
Every institution and every nation
Is quick to declare its passion
For extending equal treatment to all
Into whatever sex, race or creed they fall.
This has meant good news for women
Long suppressed by the bigoted men;
Halls of learning to them were closed
Their footfalls in marketplace opposed;
Confined were they to household chores
Putting up with society and unjust mores.
But as the ideas of Enlightenment spread
With works of Voltaire and the like read
Debate on the issue began to seep in
That setting women free was no sin
And they were every bit as competent
As any man in any country or continent.
Gallant chivalry has had its heyday
Now women begin to have their say;
Beloved as mothers, sisters, wives, daughters
Beloved they are as friends, peers, and bosses.
No glass ceiling can long bar their way
As they are throwing every shackle away.
Know Thyself 