emancipation

The Dream of Emancipation

This little town was run by important women who had leadership roles

within state and finance sector and no children played in the streets,

they were playing in a park made of foam and rubber.

Women in this town due to important work and long education,

tended to marry in their late thirties and usually with young shadowy

men who had no domestic role other than sleeping with them and

looking handsome in a suit.  

In the park created by anxious mothers, a boy found a hole in the fence

squeezed through it and came into a world  that had sharp corners and

hard ground, a place where animals are not toys and dogs bite when annoyed.

Curious the boy kept walking till he came to where the town ended and

the poor lived in pre-fabricated cabins and roads were only swept by women

outside their doors. Children played in the street, they were a noisy lot he soon

 joined in games and had great fun and when he fell and scraped his knee cried

a little, the other children laughed, this is nothing, and he soon forgot his pain.     

The boy had an epiphany, he and the other children in the foamy park were

prisoners of their over fretful mothers. He walked back to the bogus park

opened the gate wide and freed the other inmates from mothers crushing love

and guilt over not having time to nurture them.