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Don’t forget us

5/1/2020

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Don’t forget us,
Women of a certain age 

We’ve been in trenches
Working toiling; seeking space, 
Shut out from place  

We have homes
ideas, marriages, babies. 
Intentions grown in rhizomes
Did we have voice?

We cast our spells
Flourish you seeds we thought we planted
Murky that water we still swim 

Get in line
look fine
Don’t ask why

Show up
Usher the littles
Emotional Labor 
deprives physical and spirit from tending

One hand bound to a structure
designed to exclude. 
Yet we are of the earth.  We are Earth 
Silenced by greed
Disinherited by patriarchs. 

Some opt out. 
Others sacrifice dreams to stay in. 

contribute we do
create harmony with what 
She gave us
Take risk from the shadows
to protect

All the while we tolled
and were told
Don’t be 
tenacious
bossy
loud or
opinionated. 

We follow life forces 
believe, focus
and love
navigate pitfalls

Access to “privilege”  
merely the cost of a ticket
Which preserves 
status quo of exclusivity and exclusion. 

Shed the acquired self, she a cowardly lioness
Silent no more 
Mothers
fierce goddesses 
return glass ceilings to sand 

Face offspring with apologies,
I didn’t reimagine it fully enough
Face pressed to the glass 
arms full of scraped knees
hands combing knits 
while dryer signals, fold me

If I had, maybe a rapist wouldn’t be president 
Maybe reparations would have happened 
ethnic cleansings prevented, lands returned 
Maybe mothers wouldn’t have babies taken
from their arms

We drown in the poverty, injustices
No more delusions. No more out of sight
out of mind
let the bells ring out
 “no thank you, enough"
step in step up

We are not exploiters nor victims.  
We are you, we are us, 
never forget.

Vermont
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