Tell us that you hear our concerns
Tell us how much you care
Tell us how important our voices are
Thank us for coming to share
The conversation will continue
Say we have to table this motion
Regretfully for a year or two
Tell us how much diversity matters
Just not as much as vacations do
and the conversation continues
Shuffle aside centuries’ of traditions
Tell us of your committee’s travails
Politely mansplain how calendars work
Whitewash our petition and all it entails
this is how the conversation continued
Tell us how we couldn’t possibly understand
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 we’ll revisit
Of course every child is welcome at the table
there is just not room for everyone to sit
sure let’s circle back to talk in 2026
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