Last updated on May 16th, 2012 at 12:55 am
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then deny me and my children options for health care.
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Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then tell me that I can’t get birth control if I don’t want any more children.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And not address the need for good jobs to feed my family.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then reduce funding and ignore the problems with Education.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then try to dictate whether or not my child can marry based on who they chose to love.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then ignore that industries are polluting the nation’s water and air.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then allow Wall Street to rape my savings and investments.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And pretend to be “just like me†when you have never known hunger or fear for your children.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day
And then expect me to behave as a slave, silent and in the background.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day once a year
And spend every other day trying to destroy everything I work for in the name of “freedomâ€, while removing my rights one by one.
My children, my family, are my future, and the future of this nation.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day, unless you truly share the joy of being a Mother and understand your responsibility to the future of this nation.
As the children of the nation go…. so goes the nation…
