And they scream into the night
"Grow up!" "Don't cry!"
"Fuck her!" "Put out."
sex and drugs
and violence.
It makes you a man.
It makes her accomplished.
Power
still
unbalanced.
Not between the sexes,
between the bedsheets;
between the cultures;

Between their hearts,
compromising life
for accepted strength,
power,
stereotype.

And someone cries
"The war out there...started with the war in here."