Voting Day

I watched her put her earrings in zip-up her favorite dress line her lips in crimson red and do the lipstick press She glanced at me and grabbed her bag there was no time to waste the Voting Polls had opened we had to move with haste She made it like a holiday the day she cast her Vote and spoke of it for days before on calendar, made note She said in other countries kings and queens ruled over all treating them like property from high on gilded-wall But this is a democracy we Vote for who will lead there are no kings or princes in America, we’re free