In Memory

We remember those we have known who have made a significant contribution to women’s lives and well-being. With honor and respect for their work and effort, we will not forget.

A Retrospective for the 20th Century

Jean Cassidy

Part of a series. Read the rest of the series here.

We ourselves,
we who are,
who are becoming
in this time of new millennium
offer a proclamation:

The Eastern horizon darkened first,
a thousand years have set.
Dig down O memory
to find those women,
those in whom we recollect now.

They are the large lap of our safety.
Our forebears whose soul-songs,
unrecorded,
play none-the-less in our consciousness.
Canons of courage,
melodious, gnarled notes to posterity -
to Us.

We have become the melody and the song,
the matins of another dawn,
this dawn.
Making way,
we make our way,
and the song begins anew!