Equality

I'm thinking of the long ago,
When the best of points were hid.
When some one thought how it should be,
And we were raising kids.

They said that girls should stay inside,
And work in spite of wishes.
To make a lady of herself,
To cook...and do the dishes.

That men and boys should be outside,
And get up from the table.
To lay awhile in resting,
To see if they were able.

That it was not the right of things,
If boys worked in the kitchen.
Yet they could always fill themselves,
And clean-up...was not their teaching.

It does me good...so very good,
To see girls in the field.
The old adage...of being the fairer sex,
In equality...is being healed.

E.P. 1908 - 1989