Knowing you have made a target of yourself by rising.
You could have stayed seated and refused to use your voice.
But you chose to vote with your conscience.
Your legs did the difficult work of standing up.
Standing for us: we the people.
It's easy to take pot shots at someone standing alone.
But she's not really alone, is she?
A courageous act is like the call of bird.
It elicits a reply, a response, from others like it.
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