men and women can't be friends
at best you get a truce
for work, for cash, for other friends
to try and let love loose
but men and women hate each other
will for evermore
each side may win a battle
but no-one can the war
the patriarchal structures
of the world in which we dwell
are constructed from the bricks
of matriarchal homes from hell
and the women who control our lives
are hated by their men
but other women hate them more
and so we find, again
that loneliness and inability to find a mate
is all it takes to turn all human passion into hate.
Little Black Book by Wayne Myers