| MY STRUGGLE NEARS ITS END IF I COULD ONLY SHOW YOU THE PAIN INSIDE OF ME, THE SIGHT WOULD REPULSE YOU, HOW HORRIFIC IT WOULD BE, FOR I HAVE LOST THE LONG, HARD, FIGHT, I FOUGHT SO VALIANTLY. AT FIRST WHEN I BEGAN THIS JOURNEY I ONLY THOUGHT OF ME, BUT AS I TRAVELED FORWARD, I LOOKED AHEAD TO SEE, THE WOMEN WHO ASPIRE, TO EQUALITY, AND WITH THIS SIGHT, I FELT I OWED THEM, AT LEAST A PART OF ME. MY ENDURANCE HAS FALLEN, AS I PUSHED AHEAD FOR CHANGE, AND IN ITS PLACE INSTEAD, I FEEL THE TORTURE AND THE PAIN. THE THOUGHT THAT I HAVE FAILED IS A BURDEN I WILL HOLD, AS I PASS THIS TORCH OF CHANGE, TO THE NEXT UNSUSPECTING SOUL. I HOPE FOR HER SUCCESS, AS I SLOWLY TURN AWAY, FOR MY TIME HAS COME, I GIVE UP, I SIMPLY CAN NOT STAY. I HOPE THAT THROUGH MY STRUGGLES HER PATH IS LESS RESISTANT, I HOPE THAT SHE CAN BE, A LITTLE MORE PERSISTENT. FOR MY SUPPORTERS, I ASK ONE THING OF YOU, CONTINUE TO UPHOLD WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS TRUE, AND FOR THOSE THAT TOOK PLEASURE IN MY DESTRUCTION AND MY PAIN, WHEN YOU LOOK INTO THE MIRROR, I HOPE YOU ARE ASHAMED. IN PURSUIT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVED WAS FUN, OR ODDLY RIGHT, YOU MADE THE BATTLE TOUGHER, FOR YOUR SISTER, DAUGHTER, WIFE. AS YOU WATCH THEM STRUGGLE THROUGH THIS HARD SOCIETY, JUST REMEMBER YOU HELPED DO THIS, AND THEN THINK BACK TO ME . |