Tune in for a New Tomorrow

Tune in for a New Tomorrow

Place

It's OK, chauvinist—as I am—

looking in from the outside,

for a woman to wear the pants

in the family.

It's merely a role

thought that men should play.

So let's wipe the slate

in this band of change,

looking back on other things

when it wasn't

our ox being gored

and we always thought

it was as ordered,

and now slipping away,

it hurts.

Husbands stayed home

with the kids

as their wives,

service women,

were shipped off to war

and now return.

It won't all end well

for these pioneers

scrunching over

the bell-shaped curve,

but it will settle

and things will be different

for good.

It's the way,

with no apologies

accepted.

To Ponder

            1.         It’s amazing how fast big changes can come

                        unexpectedly, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

            2.         There are seers who see and some who don’t see. Truth

                        is, most of us can be surprised by what comes.

            3.         Social change always hurts someone, or even large

                        numbers of people. Today, I’m thinking about role

                        changes between women and men.

            4.         The verdict of history seems to be we don’t go back.

                        Fads repeat, novelty repeats; that’s about it.

            5.         What we think we can’t tolerate or bear in some way,

                        most often we can.

            6.         How to rise to higher ground in peace? That’s the

                        question. How do we let things in with grace?

            7.         If we expect perfection, the ideal, we’ll be hopelessly

                        lost. What might I do for the cause?

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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