05-04-2025, 11:59 PM
Today is the day after the 2024 election.
Yesterday, I felt hopeful. Proud. Eager and excited.
Today, I feel discouraged. Disappointed… but not shocked.
My worst dreams came true last night.
North Carolina – Red
Georgia – Red
… Pennsylvania – Red
Hope and optimism – lost
I knew what was coming.
I have been deceived into believing the American people have changed.
They care about women, they value women,
They want us to succeed.
Newsflash! THEY DON’T
They never did.
When will there be a time where women are in power?
Power over their lives?
Power over their own bodies?
Power over the country?
When will people choose a capable, intelligent, deserving leader
Over a deceitful, hateful, careless man?
I spend my whole life trying to be the role model I never had
Trying to break barriers, trying to uplift others, trying to pave a way.
Is it even worth it if someone like him
always wins?
I have been deceived into believing the glass ceiling would be shattered.
Instead, my dreams are what is being shattered.
Yesterday, I felt hopeful. Proud. Eager and excited.
Today, I feel discouraged. Disappointed… but not shocked.
My worst dreams came true last night.
North Carolina – Red
Georgia – Red
… Pennsylvania – Red
Hope and optimism – lost
I knew what was coming.
I have been deceived into believing the American people have changed.
They care about women, they value women,
They want us to succeed.
Newsflash! THEY DON’T
They never did.
When will there be a time where women are in power?
Power over their lives?
Power over their own bodies?
Power over the country?
When will people choose a capable, intelligent, deserving leader
Over a deceitful, hateful, careless man?
I spend my whole life trying to be the role model I never had
Trying to break barriers, trying to uplift others, trying to pave a way.
Is it even worth it if someone like him
always wins?
I have been deceived into believing the glass ceiling would be shattered.
Instead, my dreams are what is being shattered.