My lipstick is red but my views are blue
I am a woman, a powerful woman --
A leader with the world in my hands,
to do amazing things and progress us further.
A woman who wants to see improvements in healthcare,
in the economy,
in the environment in which we live.
A woman who wants to see people live harmoniously,
regardless of
race,
class,
gender identity,
sexuality,
or ideology.
A woman who wants to see other women have rights over their own bodies,
see students going to school to do something with their lives that they're passionate about,
not just what will pay off their debt.
My lipstick is red but my views are blue.
My face is red and my tears are blue
Six-thirty A. M. November 9th
Donald Trump two-hundred and seventy-six electoral votes.
A blank stare into the cracked iPhone screen, eight minutes.
Six-thirty-eight A. M. November 9th
everything is red.
The President is red.
The Senate is red.
The House is red.
The Supreme Court of the United States is red.
My repeated screams of "no" are red.
But my tears, those are blue.
They fall down my face onto my pillow and make it a deeper shade of purple.
And they fall.
until they take me back into my blissfully ignorant unconsciousness.
My face is red and my tears are blue.
My anger is red and my fears are blue
Green is the color that represents my religion
Green is the color of Islam
Red is the color of the Muslims suffering of hate crimes
Blue is the color of the fear I have for my mother in hijab
Black is the color that is as deep and dark as the days to come
Black is the color of the lives that matter
Red is the color of the black men and women suffering of hate crimes
Blue is the color of the families of the lives who have already lost,
knowing there will not be any progress
The Rainbow is what shines after the storm
The Rainbow stands for my friends of the LGBTQ community
Red is the color of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers suffering of hate crimes
Blue is the color of those who have not yet mustered up the courage to come out
and fear that they never will
My anger is red and my fears are blue
My lipstick is red, but my views are blue
But it does not matter
what color my lipstick is
or what color my views are represented by.
What matters
is unity.
What matters is the coming together of
minorities,
women,
allies,
in stopping the hate crimes,
in becoming the America that we are striving to be,
to show everyone
what it means
to "Make America Great Again."
My lipstick is red, and my views are blue.
