To be a woman in this world

If only she knew then
what she knows now

about what it means
to be a woman in this world

the power, and the responsibility

when he looks at her
like she is the center of the world

when he wants from her
all that he has missed as a child
and knows he will get it
nowhere else

life, after all, revolves around
what women have,
what women are

mother
a source of affection
like no other

and nothing will suffice
but unconditional love
that pours out 
from a woman's heart

maybe it takes her years
to wrap her head around this idea
and be secure and settled
in the unconditional love
that she is able to give
and think it will suffice
think it will bind
him to her forever

only to have it all
come tumbling down
because some woman
decides to take off her clothes
and turn the years of affection
to dust, in one strike

and that too
is what it means
to be a woman in this world

if only she had known
both of this before
she ever met any man