you’ve never met me,
have you?
did you have any idea whatsoever
that i exist at all?

let me introduce myself.

i don’t need you to know my name,
feminist would be fine.
nevermind that.
call me what you like.
i am not defined by your words.

i am writing to you
not to say what you’re doing wrong
or to tell you how evil you are.

i have never met you
so i believe it’s unfair to make judgments.
that much is a lesson i should hope
you’re one day able to learn.

i am writing for change.

immigrants aren’t criminals
unless we make them so
by making it illegal for them
to dream.

women aren’t weak
unless men
are equally weak
and strength has no meaning at all.

love is love
unless you can inform me what else it could be
because i was never taught another definition
so please enlighten me.

we need gun control NOW
unless 1,077 lives don’t matter.
by the time you read this the number may have grown
so don’t bother telling me i’m incorrect.

there’s so much more i could say
i could go on for pages and pages
words flowing from my fingertips
but i don’t want to sit and complain

i want to get up and change things.

so i will end this here.
thank you for reading.

i know you’ll likely do nothing

but this is a reminder

that we won’t back down.
it’s not just me.

it has never just been me.

it’s us.

we are the wall you ask for
but we're not what you invisioned.
this wall will hold back those
we diminish our power
to nothing.

sincerely,
me
Us



#writersforchange