There is a violence
A pall, a scourge
A war on women’s
Sovereignty over their bodies
Autonomy, health
Self determination
By a court of
Mostly supreme ideologues
Who would take us back
Two hundred years of law
When women were considered
Chattel
An invasion
Into our uteruses
Private decisions, choices
Illegal abortions will still go on
Less safe
Women will die
Women will suffer
Women of all ages
Poor women, women of color
Forced to have children
They don’t want
Can’t care for
Victims of rape and incest
Re-traumatized and reminded
Of their subjugation
Women with unviable pregnancies
Risks, losses
Possibly loss of life itself
Women isolated in their decisions
Fear of prosecution
Ubiquitous miscarriages
Equated with murder
Punishable by law
Women who simply
Want a choice
Possibilities impacted
Lives, education, careers
Women as second class citizens
We can not
We will not go back
To this barbarity
We will rise up
We will unite
We will protest
We will elect
We will fight in Congress
We will not be moved
