someday she'll be a lawyer
she'll be a doctor
she'll be a revolutionary
someday she'll give love to the poor and nurse the ill
she'll protect the oppressed
she'll tell them what they always knew -
they are strong
someday she'll fly across the sea
she'll use seafoam in her hair
she'll let sunlight kiss her skin
someday she'll move mountains with monologues
she'll write a sonata
she'll recite the words of God
someday she'll become the words of God
she'll bring stars down from the heavens
she'll wrap herself in this great expanse of universe
someday she'll bring that universe to earth
she'll do it for us
she'll do it for her

but someday

she will still
be
alone