SCOTUS 6/24/22 

Only the beginning. 

Full citizenship lost 

Without control over 

Our own bodies. 

The voters against us 

Will never be 11 or 12-year-old girls 

Not fully developed enough 

To carry and deliver safely. 

Will never be a victim forced 

To deliver a rapist’s baby. 

Trauma extended through a lifetime. 

Without relief. 

What might be next? 

Back to a time when 

A woman couldn’t get a credit card? 

A woman couldn’t own property 

In her own name? 

A woman couldn’t vote? 

Biology is not everything. 

What might be next? 

When will they come for 

A right you cherish?

(c) 2022 Victoria Lague

I originally posted this poem for Father's Day, 2021, in Facebook, and again in 2022, but I think I'm going to post here from now on instead. 

It's favorite poems of those I have written recently. If you like it, I would appreciate you're considering my book, Cloud Dreams, at Amazon. 

The Questions of Fathers

 
How do I celebrate today?
For the man who made me,
Frustrated with the me I was?
Or
The man who made me,
Pleased with the me I could be?


How do I celebrate today?
For the man who denied my need to be me?
Or
The man who filled a need he could see?
How do I celebrate today?
For the man who created an empty space?
Or
The man who oft times filled it with grace?
Could the second have flourished without the first?


How do I celebrate today?
Should I reject the second benign and favor the first as mine?


I reject the first’s discouraging nay, yet accept my life as coming from him.
I treasure the second’s encouraging faith and assert my heart as thoroughly his.
He is the one I honor today:
The man who helped me find my way.


(c) 2022 Victoria Lague