We Deserve It Too

This poem was written in response to the recent overturn of Roe V Wade and is meant to be read and experienced aloud.

Unbelievable, unacceptable

Reflectable, unfounded control

Dismissable, missable

We don’t have what keeps us whole

The right to choose

To let go of, to lose

To pick next steps

To right to move

We deserve it too

I can barely speak it

It electrifies my blood

I want to be in it

But my womb floods

The mud.

The blue blood from that fucking stud.

The truth that reality isn’t what I want

And my body, the bodies that bore us

Are being debated and deflated like

there’s something to discuss

I am a flower in a field

They want to clearcut

I am a flower in a field

Because they forgot

Is that seeds grow

And thoughts bloom

And every time they assume

They presume

That our power won’t regrow

We show that truth

We know

Baring children is between the cosmos and you, anything else is untrue.

I want to trust in the power of truth

That autonomy over me and you

Our human thoughts and imitated conceptions

We’re all stunted by limited perceptions

For now, too much - I pass this worry on to you.