Some women do not wait
for a beloved. They create
their own love, their own
futures. Their vision -- a seed grown,
blossomed, harvested. They hope, they plan,
they seek, they woo. Their chosen man
is twice blessed -- with love, & more importantly,
with a guide in how to love bravely.

Men, or at least the unwisest,
avoid such women, lest
they lose freedom or a 
sense of some sexy aura
they never had anyway. 
To love, they think, is to obey.

Let there be few such men,
& let them read this warning again. 

Inspired by Anne Sexton's "Housewife." Image Victor Brauner's Sign.