Double Standards - Soak No More.

She doesn't want a man, she wants to remain free,

Why don't we respect her decision and let her be?

Being a bachelor is "cool" , stereo-typically a chilled out, laidback guy,

But when it comes to being a spinster, we frown, WHY?

Unmarried guy, living with his parents, 30 years, he had no job,

A few eyebrows are raised, but that's all!

Unmarried female and the gossip mills start to churn,

Despite the fact that she works her butt off, helps her parents and earns.

Social institutions or restraints?

Life guides or bonded chains?

Choice is a choice, his or hers.

Unless you accept it, you just promote the belief that being a female is a curse!

Look at everyone with eyes wide open and clear,

Whether or not, to you, they are dear.

Soak No More!

This is my entry for the 'Soak No More' contest on Indiblogger. For me, when I first read those words, I thought of all those crappy things I'd like to banish once and for all (and no, I mean it, in a non fake politician-y kind of way :P), and this is one of things I felt was pertaining to the topic from my perspective :]

XoXo,

Ni.

Sometimes I Do Things .. Sometimes I Don't!

" Sometimes i take a Shower

with the lights off.

but before i even finish showering, i turn the lights back On,

because i remember how afraid of the dark i am.

sometimes i go to the Airport

and just sit in there for a few hours.

because i like watching people Reunite.

sometimes i cut my Fingernails way too short.

like, down to the quicks.

because it’s an odd feeling, the way my fingertips Hurt

every time i touch something.

sometimes i go out in public without my Shoes,

because i like feeling the Real ground,

not just the inside of my shoes.

sometimes i re-arrange my Bedroom,

but then i change it right back 

because everyone knows that there isn’t a single person 

in the world that isn’t afraid of Change.

sometimes i try reading books Upside-down

because i think thats what it would be like if i couldn’t

Read 

at all.

sometimes i just sit and watch the Grass grow,

because we’re lucky that it even grows in the First 

place.

sometimes i do things.

sometimes i don’t. "

by

Jamie.

I read this lovely poem, and just like the last one, thought to share this one up here! :]

XoXo,
Ni.

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