Nevertheless
Elizabeth
She took the floor
Then she took a breath
And read without qualms
A letter Coretta Scott King wrote Strom
They censored her
The congressmen said:
‘The Senator will take her seat.’
And all through the chamber spread heat
She was warned
She was given an explanation
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
Malala
She wanted to be a scholar
The Taliban banned
Girls education
She took a stand
It caused a stir
They got on the bus to silence her
The gunman said:
‘Who is Malala?’
She bled
She was warned
She was given an explanation
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE
If you think you've heard this before, yes,
You've seen this in hashtag form, you heard it first on the Senate floor
He thought he was silencing
But instead he penned a hook we may be licensing
Our volume he was heightening
You can try to turn our track down or off, belittle or scoff
But our transmittal is cyclical, generational
Waves of being hushed then a crash of sound
The tide of justice comes around
We're gravitational
We could fill all these bars on Joan of Arc Harriet Tubman Alice Paul and Rosa Parks
Sonya Sotomayor, Anita Hill, Hillary Rodham, Hermione and Leia,
Bessie and Nina, your mama's abuela’s mama
The first female president is alive at this moment
In a classroom raising her hand
Standing on the shoulders of a miss on this list
And Nevertheless she gonna persist
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, NEVERTHELESS, NEVERTHELESS
SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
SHE PERSISTED
SHE PERSISTED
SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS
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