A hundred years ago

Women won the right to vote

White women, that is.

It was a start

But it was big, huge

Tremendous.

Yesterday rights

were stripped from us

Rights hard fought, hard won

Rights are tenable, tenuous

Because we are women

We are not allowed simple fights

We must claw, beg, cajole, demand, scream

We are born to hold a sign in protest

We fought for years

Just to have some backwards

white conservatives and

Uncle Clarence

Come for what we earned

This time, we will not

roll over,

even if it takes 100 years more

to achieve the rights

Others are granted at birth.