Today's Girls

Today's girls leave the house
for hours and hours at a time.
They seek adventure and experience.
Because they know they are not meant
to stay at home, cooking and cleaning.

Today's girls don't know
when to shut their mouths.
They just don't know how
to sit still and do nothing
in the face of injustice.

Today's girls dress nothing like they used to.
Their pants go above the knee,
they cut their hair and dye it.
They express themselves through
outward appearances.

Today's girl huddle together to talk.
They build important relationships,
they discuss plans for the future,
but the spend their time
living in the present.

Today's girls are confident in their abilities,
they're going places.
Today's girls are tomorrow's scientists,
tomorrow's innovators and mothers.
Today's girls are half of our future.