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The Baton

She was a woman

And a mother all the while to a child

Needing to save energy for the day

Teaching order in times of play

Holding steady while her man is away

Living for the shelter of home

And the completeness of humming dishwashers

Restlessly thrashing water over plates

Her wishes long since tampered down

Her sighs and sounds of displeasure no longer measured love or discontent

Her life bent around tiny little hands and a future not planned

No matter how far she had come

She was still her mother

Same color

Maybe taller with more of the stuff to succeed

Still sacrificed for a glass cage

Playing shadow while he took center stage

Content to be restless but only to display strength

Hoping to bend fate a little more

She wanted to raise a great woman on the shores of a man’s world

And let her sail as captain of her fate

Eyes wide to the stars and yet determined

To shake up the world with her mind

A chance to fight back the shadows

To never be afraid to run full speed in fields of lilies

To hold her head up

And shine