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Suffrage


Seneca Falls 1848

Remember that date

Remember the next one-

1920

 

Seventy two years

Seventy two YEARS

 

Is that fair?

Is it right?

I wasn’t there

But I would have joined that fight

 

I would have changed their minds

I want people to change their brains

The way we think

 

I want people to see

I want people to SEE

 

See the gray

See from their eyes

Don’t let the hope of equality decay

Don’t reprise-

 

The past thoughts of men who were of insignificance

Stop intolerance

 

Change your heart

I would end sexism

That’s where I’d start

If I could change one schism

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