Afterwards: Roe v. Wade

A Woman’s Right to Choose — A Poem

Society is so focused on women’s bodies,

moving about in a world that wants to see them

but not hear them, not a sound from our lips,

only the undulating of our hips, no appeal

from our hearts that Society likes to crush

like insects underfoot, no protest from our

raised fists, asking for equality & only receiving

toxic masculinity or a fist, punching the air

towards our precious faces, bashing in our will

to go on, but we still go on, if not our grandmothers

then our mothers, if not our mothers, then our daughters,

if not our daughters — then who? We exist to do more

than exist, we resist because we know our rights

as human beings, as people, as women who gave

birth to this Earth & no man or societal norms

can stop us from surviving & thriving, even as

the world collapses around us and closes in.