To be unaware of the broken glass at your feet, to leap straight through historic shards, bare, bold, free.
To hail from sugar, cayenne, and so much more than nice.
To envision a future beyond a shower of rice, to be shown you can be anything, to believe it, well beyond childhood dreams, to not be limited by "seem" and "ought to be", to never "should" yourself to sleep.
To choose who you lie with, to say what you mean, to play on every fuckin' team, to live without the constant urge to scream-- to defer, no more, the long smoldering dream.
To belong anywhere, everywhere, to take your share without apology, to see nothing but possibilities, to live without the need to please.
To seize success as a birthright, to reach every height, climb every ladder, mountain, boulder, tree, to scale buildings, schools, corporations, organizations, with nothing but your wit, strength, compassion, grit.
To sit in the oval office, not as intern, no...
It's your turn.
It's her turn.
It's your turn.
(Inspired by Kamala Harris's acceptance speech.)
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