I'm just trying to raise her

I'm just trying to raise her I wrote this back and just never posted it.. Raising girls in this society is so hard....

And I'm just trying to raise her,
higher than any man will ever make her think she feels
higher than that pipe that they will raise to her face
higher than that pole that they will tell her to climb...
than that invisible ceiling...
higher, higher, higher, and beyond everything that I've ever been....

Sin...dances around her, dances around me... and deep inside
I know, that's not the way to be -but
she's... not inside me anymore,
and I need to transplant this idea of virtue, and morality, in she -
where is this umbilical cord to which her soul I can feed?