If the World Was a Classroom

If the World Was a Classroom

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to hate.

To hate deeply the injustices of Her situation,

And hotter than the bodies who hate Her.

To hate more strongly, more cutting than the false diamonds of false lovers,

And longer than the span of ignorance.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to shun,

To shun the wayward advice of others,

The blessings and curses

Societies and loneliness,

To shun Her innermost judgments and assumptions.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to despair,

To despair at the quality of life She has been apathetic to,

And at the self-imposed oppression of global society.

To despair at the violence that stains the street with gore and rumor,

And also at the silence that follows.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to hate, to shun, and to despair.

I would teach Her these things

So that She would learn to love, to accept, and to hope

So that She would learn to be independent of Her own body

And grow into Her mind and heart,

Grow into Her thoughts and actions.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Girl to be Woman to be Teacher.

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