We Will Breathe
A song to join the ancient hum of resistance
Written with gratitude for the container of sisterhood and for all of the men that have given me space to be myself, and to breathe
Open your eyes
Widen your narrow mind
you insidious man
Representative of the elite
Of whiteness
Of the power hungry demons that feed on inequity
When will you see that your struggle to oppress us
Will never end
You will always be fighting
Like a murderer trying to silence the screams of his victim
Struggling to hold us in the prison you have created to oppress us
Some would call “American culture”
“our society”
Did you account for the fact that we are fighters
Have you thought about the fact that we have been singing a resistance song since the beginning of time
Don’t try to lay a trap for me by giving me what looks like a get out of jail free card
Thinking I will value my whiteness over my womanhood
I was not born
