If you shed all your titles,
you let go of all your power;
see around you - who stays.

See the inauthentic vanish in thin air - like magic.
Solitude - the evergreen ally.

I have been escaping organizations,
as a single woman, the only prevention you have from
men looking out for flings is to escape at the first sign

Evacuate yourself at the first red flag.
Only now it dawns on me how I will end up doing this my entire life.

That is the existential crisis facing me eternally.
I feel unsafe, the dread creeps in.

Flee and prevent any disaster.
Fight and flight is the only prevention from mankind.
Only now it dawns on me how I will end up doing this my entire life.

Warrior, warrior, I am a warrior.
With that brave face, are you not freaking out inside; flustered!
You are your own saviour and there's no place on earth that is safe.

Every man should be made a homemaker,
Lest they romanticize workplace romances;
Scaring single women at the workplace with their advances.  

This world is not made for a woman who has no man. It takes resilience to keep yourself safe.

To resilience and courage.
Courage to survive in a man's world.

Kept telling them,
he will make a nuisance out of you.

But these women won't listen,
he will present you a sham stability, a sham relationship.

But these women won't open their eyes.
It breaks my heart that the very woman who gets trafficked;
Does not realize that she is getting used and exploited.

I need not be their saviour, not save them from predators.
Moral police I have been called.
Aghast, I don't know how to rescue them from notorious womanizers.

I have been told time and again by women - they don't need my saving. I hope they never do.

The horrors I have seen, I don't trust an idea, a thing, a being called - man or mankind.

Same old. Keeping me as the clandestine.
I was not enough of an arm candy.
What is different with this one?

This has happened to me before as well.
I know how to handle the denial of my existence.
I know how to handle belittling and rejection.

I am an expert at managing this.
I will as always be fine.

But never be anyone's arm candy and an empty vial.
I have the strongest of character and I know by default repulse the immoral - that has been my only 'fault'.

I have believed in me, what if a shallow man has not!
I am the depth he cannot afford with his lack of conscience.
I will as always be fine.

Good girls finish last. Indeed.

If only I had been more ostentatious;
I would have him.

If only I had more power;
I would have him.

If only I had more fame;
I would have him.

Having a character falls short;
When all he knows is to chase glitter.
He chases more noise making empty vessels and - that is his agency.

I fade into oblivion, as maturity always does, blending into the background and ceases to exist.

A man spending his time building up other women and their lives?
Loyal, you think he can be loyal?
He cannot be your man, he can just be a man.

A woman spending her time building up other men and their lives? Loyal, you think she can be loyal?
She cannot be your woman, she can just be a woman.

~ observer