For Women With Dreams

Here's to women
With dreams
And schemes.
With visions and
Values,
Beyond all that
Seems reality.
Within their reach,
They teach
Us to break the mould
Of old
Conventions and
Set-in ways.
Who says
They cannot do it all?
And well.
Better,
In every respect.
If left unchecked.
Given rein
To gain
All they will,
And more.
They know the score.
Contempt
From males
Who feel
The threat.
They think  her place
Is in the bed.
Yet, when all
Is said
And done,
There too
She can have her fun.
Its begun.
Trite.
Perhaps.
But without
Respite.
It's her right
To be
Free.
To see
As far as her vision goes.
Ah yes,
Here's to women
With dreams.
I guess
They will
Indeed
Succeed.

Rod jones 10/09/99
revised 1June 2003