The Dream Of Emancipation

This little town was run by important women who had leadership roles within state and finance sector and no children played in the streets, they were playing in a park made of foam and rubber. Women in this town due to important work and long education, tended to marry in their late thirties and usually with young shadowy men who had no domestic role other than sleeping with them and looking handsome in a suit. In the park created by anxious mothers, a boy found a hole in the fence squeezed through it and came into a world that had sharp corners and hard ground, a place where animals are not toys and dogs bite when annoyed. Curious the boy kept walking till he came to where the town ended and the poor lived in pre-fabricated cabins and roads were only swept by women outside their doors. Children played in the street, they were a noisy lot he soon joined in games and had great fun and when he fell and scraped his knee cried a little, the other children laughed, this is nothing, and he soon forgot his pain. The boy had an epiphany, he and the other children in the foamy park were prisoners of their over fretful mothers. He walked back to the bogus park opened the gate wide and freed the other inmates from mothers crushing love and guilt over not having time to nurture them.