There is a knock that taps on your door,
And you know it’s different.
It comes, with a different bang,
It sounds, like no other,
None that you've heard of,
Yet It comes, and its crystal clear,
It's a different one.
It sounds, so strong, so bold, so inviting
That you run to the door and open a jar
Looking out, to what it holds.
It grips you, holds you, and there in your face
It shines upon you, with such an opportunity
Rare in a lifetime.
It comes once
Once like a passing wind,
It closes you up, beats you up, shakes you up,
And makes you realize, it is a special one.
Such a wind of opportunity knocked on my door,
It came running, and it hugged me
It embraced me
It touched me, from the toe to the last strand of my hair
It shook me,
It held me tight,
It said to me “together we are here”.
It identified with me,
With everything I did
Everything I wanted, it had.
Everything had, it wanted.
And here we are.
Two friends that met out of the blue, yet we stayed.
To offer I did
All my best all I could,
Because of the place I occupy
This place of a woman,
This place of a girl
This place of change
That to be the subject,
To be the driver, of the things I wanted to see change
To be the person that created the new light,
The new dawn in the lives of the others
Who unlike me could not get to where I was
Here is the new opportunity
Chasing and running after me,
And reminding me, that I wasn’t alone.
This opportunity came, I grabbed it
I stayed the course
And along the way, I have met others,
The bold,
The Strong,
And courageous,
They that have walked ahead of me,
They that have stood the heat of time
Raising their voices writing down the policies that have shaped the nation
We join them
Sanding on their shoulders with posters and placards
On top of our voices screaming and proclaiming the good news of the girl child
For the woman
For those whose voice is not clear enough
For those who are not loud enough
For those who need to be spoken on their behalf.
Today we join here, together,
Not as the best candidates ever,
But as the few that stand on the shoulders of those who went before us,
And those that have walked the path before us.
We stand here
Because we believe in the same cause
We are the cause
And we are the change
For everything that has ever been needed
And Everything
That has ever been dreamt of,
we are.