Patriarchal roots feed most toxic systems.

Most see the problems, most choose to dismiss them.

Misogyny, homophobia, systemic racism,

xenophobia, transphobia, extensive classism.

Groups daring protest that don’t want to yield

Are shut down and out by the power men wield.

Toxic men do not want an equal position.

They blame the oppressed who protest their tradition.

So women, black people, and LGBTQ

who work ten times harder to make upward moves,

are blamed for the downfall of men who once worked

in the top jobs held mostly by men with huge perks.

Now they can’t handle the truth that some face.

The ones given chances, worked hard, now replace

these men who in privilege who sailed to the top

we’re just average joes who now want to stop

all those thought below them,”inferior people”.

The ones who know well innate rights make us equal.

Who stand on their own and are rightfully prized

for hard work that they’ve done to uphold equal rights.