The Heroines Among Us
Bob McNeil writes of women who took the world by storm and changed hearts and minds for the better! One step at a time, we continue moving forward in the direction of gender equality!
A Song for Sheroes
Women, make men comprehend,
Women, make men comprehend,
Women,
Make men comprehend
That each sister
Has a Harriet Tubman
Prepared to seek
A place where men
Do not abuse their Queens,
A place that erects Jewels of Respect.
Women, make men comprehend,
Women, make men comprehend,
Women,
Make men comprehend
That each sister
Has a Shirley Chisholm
Prepared to shake and make every state
Understand that liberation
Must not become a membership card
Only given to men.
Women, make men comprehend,
Women, make men comprehend,
Women,
Make men comprehend
That each sister
Has a Dr. Mae C. Jemison
Entering a NASA shuttlecraft
That ascends to a time
Where gender mistreatment ends.
Women, make men comprehend,
Women, make men comprehend,
Women, make men comprehend.
by Bob McNeil
Copyright 2020
Poet:
Bob McNeil, writer, editor, and spoken word artist, is the author of Verses of Realness. Hal Sirowitz, a Queens Poet Laureate, called the book “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn’t flinch at the truth.” Among Bob’s recent accomplishments, he found working on Lyrics of Mature Hearts to be a humbling experience because of the anthology’s talented contributors. Copies of that collection are available here: https://amzn.to/3bU8Loi.
