Women of the World

They are colossi and like Sumo
wrestlers shrewdly judging their
next moves to outflank the other
this is but a side-issue, irrelevant to
the matter of brawn over cunning.
The issues are immense, out-sizing
the contestants; global trade, nuclear
weapons, conflicts and where each
stands on the sidelines directing
combatants in proxy wars whose
conclusion signals which will gain
command while the balance of the
world order teeters. What totters on
the other hand is the plight of half
the world as women stand on the
brink of a renewed order threatening
to haul them back to a bitter history 
not-so-distant of utter subservience 
to the dictates of the other half. The 
criminal offences of battery and rape 
to be mitigated as though love can be 
wrapped in verbal and physical bruises 
and women must once again submit 
to the order of desensitized patriarchy. 
They march with placards defiantly 
expressing their rage. Women enfeebled 
by age but not intention alongside 
the fresh battalions now carrying 
the torch of denial and freedom 
from oppression, resurgent.