For what Innocence has left behind

When she walked

Walked out on a nation

I can weep

For the what-comes-next,

Lick-the-wounds-clean,

I-still-dream

Speeches

I can weep

For it won't be enough

Never again

Will the daughters of my generation

Look to their fathers

As story-book heros

(But perhaps it has always been them

Who needed saving)

And people who walk

Upright without fear of the fall

Will be remembered for who they left behind

Who they traipsed on by

And I can weep

For a so-called-mending

In which, I no longer believe

But I can weep

For a so-called-mending

A mending

second wednesday of 2021: trump is impeached in the house, the first time a president has been impeached twice

third wednesday of 2021: biden and harris are sworn in as president and vp, the first time a woman has held either office