‘The night is long, but our dream is longer.’ - Haitian proverb
I was just telling my best friend today that I want this tattooed on the backs of my shoulders. When people ask me why, I will say there are so many meanings.
One of which is: when I feel so low that I cannot see my way out of it, when I am lying at the bottom of the river and I contemplate never coming up, of letting myself be washed out to sea, I remember that I am needed
by my best friend
by my four dogs
by my circle of loved ones
but these are all ‘of courses’ and I also remember that I am needed
by the voiceless
by the hopeless
by the beaten down
to
fight the good fight
to tell those thrown out like trash (people dogs teenagers especially the gay ones) that they are beautiful
and can and will be loved
to help teach the little girls in my life how to be a woman and a decent human being
to speak, shout, scream, drop science
to be counted
to remember
to light the spark
to dream the dream that will outlast the night
