I promise to love you without limits.
Breaking down the gender binary
one square inch of bubble wrap
at a time.
I am yours through sickness
and through health, yes,
but also through
smashing the patriarchy.
Together we will combat
microaggressions with
unassailable tenacity
and tenderness.
I promise to love and honor you.
We will obey the rules we write.
And not what has come before.
We will build a world for our children
that doesn’t mute the pink and blue
but brings forward all the colors
of their rainbow.
Whether taking a sledgehammer to glass ceilings,
or explaining the necessity of intersectionality,
or making sure that female superheroes line the shelves, too—
I am yours and you are mine.
Utterly.
Equally.
Completely.
The poem was commissioned by Kacey Shiflet by contributing to education fund to attend Naropa University’s MFA in Contemporary Performance. Want your own custom poem? Learn more here: https://www.youcaring.com/katie-woodzick-585387
