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Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/reenas-xploration-challenge-272/

A new way to watch television, going on brain wavelength, and companies like Sky, and Virgin taken over. Entertrainment they called it. Training your brain to be immersed in a world so perfect, what was going on outside mattered little.

In a trance like state, you could stream all your favourite shows, even walk with extinct creatures if you wanted to. Wildlife programs were always popular. A trip to Africa. Certainly sir, madam. All you need is three hundred credits and the world is yours.

Strobscopic, the company you could also work for, making components for the machines, readily used in homes across the world. Nobody knew who invented this new device, but being part of your own entertainment, enlightening.

Chelsea could remember a time, when she was in her thirties, going to the supermarket, buying her shopping. Driving her car into the country – of course…

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #271

It happens to be the theme for International Women’s Day 2023. The idea is to not just stop at equality. The images will clarify the idea.

Introspection

Before 
Complaining that 
We're not treated
With 
Equality
Equit
And 
Justice and 
Playing a victim 
Let us introspect
And make sure
Whether
all humane beings/ or some
Whether men or women
Rich or poor
Treating each other
With
Equality
Equity
and
Justice
Without discrimination
And don't
When given a chance
TryGrab all
Leaving
Downtrodden
In the lurch
Then only
Our claim is justified

To Be A Woman

you were everything you were expected to be, giver of life to the world’s
greatest leaders, brilliant thinkers,
gifted innovators, even to the next man
who will walk to the moon.

but what have they done to you?
what honor and grace have they given you?
the right to suffrage?
the right to lead?
the right to be independent?

isn’t the right to vote a basic human right?
isn’t the chance to become a leader open to everyone?
isn’t independence a basic concept of democracy?

why then are you being told to be grateful for the equality you have been granted upon?
why then are you being told to accept things as it is and for how it is?

you were everything you were expected to be, cradle of love, kindness, generousity, and compassion to the world’s next generation of youths.

but what have they done…

For today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt, Martha Kennedy has given us the word: Timorous as our poetic inspiration for today. I’ll be combining this prompt with the latest: Reena’s Xploration Challenge asking us to #EmbraceEquity

A TIMOROUS TYPE OF EQUITY

“No, I don’t just want equality”
Rachel blurted out suddenly
Stopping her boss Tim in his tracks.
“What did you say?”
Tim snapped in return.
Annoyed at the temerity of her interuption
“I. I. I. Eh…”
He strode angrily towards her.
And asked her again.
“Well?! What did you just say Miss O’Brien?”
I said….
Her voice now trembling & timorous
“We… don’t… We don’t just want equality,
We want equity!”
“What?!”
He retorted!
“Not just equal opportunities for job progression
But the resources & the training to back it up!”
Her voice in full flow now & growing in confidence.
“I mean, there’s no point in saying we’re all…

I ask for no special place,

I ask for no special status,

I ask for no special concessions,

Acknowledge what is mine, as mine,

It isn’t in your power to give,

It isn’t in my nature to plead,

I wasn’t meant to serve you,

You weren’t meant to boss me,

I ask not for your share,

I’m not ready to forsake mine,

We were meant to live in harmony,

Under the same canvas, we were meant to thrive.

Look around you,

Nature celebrates her female tribe,

Be it a peacock’s search for his bride,

Or a mammoth’s matriarchal pride,

Be it a koel’s call for his mate,

Or a serpent ‘s dream date,

Look around.

Acknowledge my space to live,

You are here, so I am,

You are here, because I am,

Weaker sex was coined by humans like you and me,

Nay, don’t be intimidated by…

https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/i-am-confused-ich-bin-verwirrt-reenasxploration/

I am confused is a good way to describe how I feel about you

You dance with no need for shoes, exist in a state of okay-ness that is beyond my comprehension, I have no idea what size shoe would fit the foot of a goddess, because a goddess needs no shoes, you are beyond the idea of shoe, having soles fit for walking through life without need for them. I wish to give you shoes but your mysterious feet are beyond my comprehension, and need nothing from the tragic form of a man so below you. I wish for you a world where your glorious feet radiating beauty are recognized as the shoes and feet men lack, but for now I imagine slippers made of stones that cover your feet, caressing them with the kisses of your star dust existence, I am sorry, sweet angels, you deserve so…