you wake up each day
as new as anyone
there is no reason to assume
you would be supernaturally strong
there is no reason to test your strength
through daily disrespect and neglect
you don’t need to be strong
everyone supports you.
If you say ouch
we believe that you are hurt.
We wait to hear how we can help
To mend your pain.
You have chosen to be at a school,
At a workplace, in a community
That knows that you are priceless
That would never sacrifice your spirit
That knows it needs your brilliance to be whole.
Your very skin is sacred
And everything beyond it
Is a miracle that we revere
We mourn any violence that has ever been enacted against you.
We will do what it it takes to make sure that it doesn’t happen again
To anyone.
We you speak, we listen.
We are so glad that you are here, of all places.
Other women, even strangers, reach out to you when you seem afraid.
And they stay, until peace comes.
The sun, reminds everyone how much they love you.
People are interested in what you are wearing,
Simply because it tells them what paintings to make.
Everyone has always told you, you can stay a child, until you are ready to move on.
If you run across the street, naked at
You do so many things because it feels good to move; you have nothing to prove to anyone.
White people cannot harm you. They do not want to. They do not do it by accident.
Your smile makes people glad to be alive; your body is not a symbol of anything.
Everyone respects your work and makes sure you are safe while doing it.
No one will lie to you, scream at you, or demand anything.
When you change your mind, people will remember to change theirs.
Your children are safe. No one will use them against you.
The place where knowledge is has no walls.
Every song I’ve ever heard on the radio is in praise of you.
The way you speak is exactly right for wherever you happen to be.
There is no continent anywhere where life counts as nothing.
There is no house in your neighborhood where you hear screams every time you go past.
No camera waits to amplify your pain.
Nobody wonders whether you will make it-everybody believes in you.
No one hopes you will give up your neighborhood so they can buy it cheap.
Someone is thinking highly of you right now.
Being around you makes people want to be their kindest, most generous selves.
There is no law anywhere that depends on your silence.
Nobody bases their privilege on their ability to desecrate you.
Everyone will believe anything you say because they have been telling you the truth all along.
When you speak loudly, everyone is happy because they wondered what you were thinking.
3 in 3 women will fall in love with themselves during their lifetime.
Everyone believes that you should have all the resources that you need.
Any creases on your face are from laughter.
No one, anywhere, is locked in cage.
Every institution wants to know what you think, so they can find out what they should really be doing, or shut down.
You wake up…new as anyone.
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