Just Another Day? A Commentary

women's day:  a notion (?)

and so we talk of women 

one day of the year, celebrate,

and glorify in posters and 

rhetoric of dignity,  as we 

do with ethnicities, or cultures, or 

disenfranchised others; 

and so we 'elevate'  for brief 

days, achievements, or power,

or historicities, or any realm of 

loftiness to portray and portend 

a stature of importance; 

and then it's past.   and religions,

governments, social hierarchies, 

and ingrained cultural mores

resume the journey of status quo; 

and in our PC world, we allow 

that - talking points as veiled 

courage withheld,  the fear of 

offending the true motivating 

force for stasis. 

Written for Poets United prompt. 

© 2013 R. Burnett Baker