KATY´S “NO”:

Our Katy was a good girl, dulcet, sweet & mild,

Everyone would say, “What a very good child”,

Katy was a young lady, demure, so coy & pretty,

Men would take her home & say,”Oh what a pity”.

Our Katy was a good wife & doing all right things,

Kept home & obeyed, but always dreamed of wings,

Katy was a good mother, pandering to kids whims,

All ran her ragged, to exhaustion & old wrinkled skin.

Then one day our Katy woke up & said the magic word,

Through that word she grew wings & flew up like a bird,

And all were shocked & troubled by this new & awful blow,

It was all because our Katy had learned to say that “No”.

From the kernel of that “No”, our Katy blossomed & grew,

She was prettier now by far, as higher each day she flew,

And respected more by all now, as she went about her way,

After all her chores were done, Katy even learned to play.

“What I don´t understand”, she thought, deep inside her head,

Is why this simple word of “No”, is not taught before we wed,

It´s as if because we are women, we are deemed to be the fools?

When the simple word of “No”, should be taught to girls in schools.