Under Same Moon

You lay awake while I slept

One eye to news of the sky

Under the full moon

Like a night watchman,

Pacing landscape

alert to nocturnal arrivals

As if my sleep depended on it

You offered your luminosity

To dream of an alternate sky

An alternate reality of change

While I recharged mine

Dreaming in alternate news—

Where women

control their bodies

And majority of the senate

Speak their truths

of heart AND minds

Where girls are praised & raised for their brilliance—

And even grow up to be named madam president

On a tuesday am in November

as if your night watching

Caught the dream running through all

Fullness of alternate dreams

Fullness of BOTH history & herstory

Fullness under the same moon

While we all slept

And awoke to the alternate news

Go Kamala!

May you be our first Madam President

May the fullness of luminosity

become our new reality