happy pill

mothers and daughters

if you're a woman who says it's easier

to have daughters than sons

let me ask you something

is it easier to teach a woman how not to be raped

than to teach a man

how to not rape?

I suppose the most difficult medicine to swallow

is one's own pride

and it doesn't help

if the rest of the world won't help you

and either way

the loss of innocence is difficult to grieve

but one of those situations

only acknowledges one's loss of innocence

some mothers care more about their own healing

than the healing of their daughters

but in the end it feels like there's nothing to fix

if you can't see what's broken

if you're a woman who says it's easier

to have daughters than sons

I hate you

but probably not as much as you hate yourself