bills response to "it being forbidden"

I found this poem to be pretty intense. I think that Martha Rhodes conveyed a strong feeling of oppression in this poem. The line "his arms raised, our sisterly head shamed downward" made me think of an overbearing father interacting with his daughters. The message i got from this poem and this line in particular "and we remain in his house longer than we ought, for he prophesies even you shall leave me" was that no matter how hard you try to control things they will ultimately change and his daughters would grow and eventually leave him and his fear of being out of control and alone would become reality.