"Break in Case of Glass"

You talk of glass ceilings

That limit the size 

Of the salary you’ll earn 

Or portend your demise 

Like being a woman’s a crime 

A cast where there’s no mold 

To form fit the fight to

Break the glass ceilings.  

You talk of glass ceilings 

Like it’s a tease at the top 

A place you’ve been promised 

But will never live up. 

Still, if inside you erupt 

No wall, no roof, no controls 

Can hinder you and your goals 

As you break the glass ceilings.   

Deep down I know you’re feeling 

It’s exoteric, the power, wielding 

And it might be a haul 

No submitting, no yielding 

To this terrible glass ceiling 

And soon enough you’ll start seeing 

There’s no glass ceiling at all.

(December 2005)