The Light of Fireflies

To the heroines still not well known,

Those who would be famous were they men,

And those whose sunlight never fully shone,

Veiled for life behind men's fear of sin:

Now it's time your tales were well told,

Well past time you got your bit of glory!

We need to rescue you so that the old

Slant no longer skews our common story.

Those who love the truth and know the past

Is never past, that stories steer one's choices,

Will want to look for heroines in the vast

Store of women's lives and hear their voices.

~

Nicholas Gordon