dreams

It really is that simple, isn't it? It sure should be.

Karine Polwart's song and video beg the wonderful question: what all ARE you women and girls going to do someday? What do you strongly want to do, for sure, but more to the point, what do you KNOW, in your guts and your heart, that you are simply GOING to do?

Seeing Joey post her poetry here encouraged me to go ahead and post some of mine. These are the two newest pieces I just finished this week. Lately I've been in an non-stop poetry writing mood but normally its all about love and nothing feminist-y. So these are both my first feminist type poem since I was about 14 years old.

Dream lady, My Visionary:

You’re a dream lady,
My Visionary
Visionary heart
Visionary love
Visionary soul
Oh lady, Your amazing
Standing up for what you believe
Raising that fist in the air
And fighting for what is right
Right from wrong
You know the truth
The truth I seek
The truth we seek
Human rights
And equality for all
What is right
We shall fight
Tell we fall
We will stand together
And raise that fist in the air
Until we get equality
The equality we need
The equality we deserve
We are all the same
So what’s the big deal
If we are of a different race
Or sex
Or we like the same sex
All that should matter
Is that we all have a heart
A heart that can break
From the pain
That can be caused
From the hate that one has
Because someone is different
But if we just tolerate
Then no acceptance can happen
For tolerance is just a form of the hate
That is already going on
So lets accept everyone as a person
A heart and soul
And learn to love
And live
And let equality be true