A Single Sentence Letter to Our Daughters
A Single Sentence Letter to Our Daughters
i think i know why aliens haven't visited us. they're
definitely watching with rapt attention, waiting
to see how we climb the highest wall
humanity built for ourselves in the past
half century. i'd like to think they've been watching
our progress for longer than they'd like to admit,
from the 13th amendment to the 19th
from the Civil Rights Act to the ADA
from Roe v. Wade to Obergefell v. Hodges
from 2016 to 2024, silently praying for
a woman to take up the torch - not the throne -
& show the world what we're made of
& what we can do when there is
no one left to judge us. we create life
from our breasts to our hips to our ovaries to our minds;
we've created every person who has ever lived.
Einstein was intelligent,
Galileo was revolutionary,
Washington was a visionary, but
women gave birth to them all, yet it's only been
105 years since our voices could be recognized
by the government. so,
join me in a prayer with the entities
watching over us & praying over our future
so we will be able to tell our daughters the
story of humanity: "hope will always triumph fear
so long as no one knows hate &
love is the only word in the dictionary."
The Voice
September 2025
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