{"id":51423,"date":"2019-06-22T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51423"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:18:07","slug":"till-we-have-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/till-we-have-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Till We Have Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Till We Have Faces\r\n\r\nTill we have faces which others recognize,\r\nwe'll struggle \r\nfor the genuine compliment of competence\r\nnot a measure about how we make others feel, \r\nfor promotions and invitations\r\nwithout expectations of contributing our best,\r\nfor our voices to be heard\r\nwithout our need to call out louder ever lounder.\r\n\r\nTill we have faces we recognize in each other,\r\nwe'll struggle\r\nto accept each other whether or not we have children\r\nan education, a stable home, a successful health care plan, \r\na clean record, a proper background, a promising future,\r\nthe right husband or children or pantsuit or political platform.\r\n\r\nTill we have faces for ourselves\r\nwe'll struggle to wake in the morning and sleep throughout the night.\r\nTill we have faces for ourselves\r\nwe'll look in mirrors with doubtful eyes and pounding hearts.\r\nTill we have faces for ourselves\r\nwe'll teach our daughters and nieces and students this similar fear.\r\n\r\nTill we have faces\r\nwe must rise to see, value, and affirm our being.\r\nOur uprising starts now\r\nand continues until we all know our worth\r\nbecause they'll finally see our faces.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Till We Have Faces Till we have faces which others recognize, we&#8217;ll struggle for the genuine compliment of competence not a measure about how we make others feel, for promotions and invitations without expectations of contributing our best, for our voices to be heard without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51564,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions\/51564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}