WOMEN’S RIGHTS/POLITICS

We Will Not Go Back

A poem

It’s time for the patriarchy to expire. Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

My husband asked me the other day

If I thought our girls

would be so woke.

I said yes.

They’re exactly as I’d hoped.

Caring, compassionate,

And longing to change

This world and all that is deranged.

To carry on the fights of past generations

Forging ahead with fewer frustrations.

They are Accepting, loving, idealistic, and honest.

But Instead of a world that’s filled with promise

We’re giving them one that is dishonest.

Full of heartache

And now fewer rights than me

With a government led by hypocrisy

Living in fear of losing democracy.

With so much on their plates

As young adulthood takes

They shouldn’t also have to feel so unsafe.

Amid so much chaos

I have to hope

That my daughters will somehow find ways to cope.