Champion
Choose yours
Champion of the cause,
I often wonder, often pause to think
What world we'd live in
Without your sacrifice.
The ceaseless struggle
To overcome, to right the wrong,
Strong in your message.
Determination to forge a better place,
A better world to come.
Pacific pathways,
Endless gateways,
Joining all to seek one end.
Never flinching,
Always bringing your unwavering fortitude.
Blessed in the battle,
Your past labours
Have given us our future,
All our todays.
O ~ 0 ~ o ~
Although the image above features Sylvia Pankhurst, the poem is not so much about her as about her kind. The unremitting campaigner. The sometimes uncredited champion of the cause. Unlike her suffragette mother and sister, Sylvia did not put the campaign for women's votes aside at the start of the first world war, she campaigned against the war. In the 1930s she campaigned against fascism and nazism and was instrumental in assisting the cause of Ethiopia's independence. She lived her latter years in Ethiopia, at the invitation of the country's Emperor, Haile Selassie.
Who is your champion?
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Raymond G. Taylor
Author living in Kent, England. Writer of short stories and poems in a wide range of genres, forms and styles. A non-fiction writer for 40+ years. Subjects include art, history, science, business, law, and the human condition.
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Comments (7)
Inspiring stuff😁
Great work. Women should have got the vote a long time before they did. Maybe if they had the world would have been better off in only my opinion.
Thank you for writing this poem 🤗
Great poem, Ray. Whenever I hear women say they won't vote, it makes me angry because there's the assumption that this is something women can take for granted. And it's not. Having a voice matters; being able to get that voice heard, I would argue, matters more.
This is so creative
I don't think I have a champion 😅 Your poem was extremely powerful!
Wow! What a wonderfully impactful poem. Well done and most complimentary to those who labored long and hard in pursuit of such dreams.