The Road to Gilead

A Handmaid's Primer

The road to hell

Is paved with good intentions.

So is the road to Gilead.

If everyone has a role to fill,

And a part to play.

Knowing her place is how a woman begins

Her journey on the road to Gilead.

Acquiescence and submission,

The only path women take

On the road to Gilead.

Domesticity the destination,

Subservience the goal

On the road to Gilead.

A low voice,

A constant smile,

And all will be well in Gilead.

A clean house,

Obedient children.

A contented spouse.

All she wants and needs.

Her home is a gilded cage,

Her domicile an orderly prison.

A sorrowful journey,

A cursed destination.