Imagining the future

 

 
When I feel this powerless
in the face of ICE and war,
I look to the future
 
when today’s angry girls
grow up to complete
what we started, only better. 
 
Empowerment rises
while we elders applaud.
I want to live to see it:
 
Thousands of Amanda Gormans
decrying war and ending racist policies.
Tens of thousands of Greta Thunbergs,
 
Environmental activists save the planet. 
Hundreds of women entering
politics in every state of the union,
 
all supporting each other.
A flood of restoration filling
unpolluted rivers with “Can do” energy.
 
Energy behind new young inventors, too,
and talent scouts re-casting the nation
so every position has knowledgeable
 
leaders and capable workers
so everyone has healthcare
and food to eat.  So women
 
can be president, one after another.
And, as Maya Angelou said, “astonish
the cruel world with acts of kindness.”

 

For my prompt "Women and History" at What's Going On? 

 

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