Grandpa
Please tell me about gender.
Gender is big and gender is small.
Gender refers to you being a male or female.

Grandpa, what if I added 'equality'?
Then,you will add a little problem.
Get me my chewing stick.
In dim and distant past.     
everything was going on well.
Until some women said they wanted to be men.
I don't know if they'll  cut their pudenda
In exchange for a stick.

Well,society agreed and termed it 'equality
While one is still seen preeminent.
From our homes to work places.
Even in your schools.
As a girl you have to be neat,
Dirt today,is seen a preserve of boys.
Though we all came from dust.

The government is singing
"Promote girl child education"
While the boys are left in the gutters.
Better off, if they were hunters.
Not hearing the laughter of the gutters
Has kept society in a state of blissful ignorance

A boy can put to bed a woman his mother's age
But woman can't put to bed a boy her Son's age.
What man can do,woman can do better.
Then I tell you ,a woman can also abuse a boy.

Job opportunities and the top button goes off.
We are forced to tie ropes to our necks
as goats being lead to the slaughter.
They watch us in gales of laughter.
Top button off and two balls set adrift wins the offer.

Well,it takes two to tango.
The deafening silence of us would run the gauntlet. 
                                


                                           Abdul-Karim Alhassan

Poem on gender discussing UN SDG. 5