"And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. She's the one who taught me about hard work. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well." - Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention on August 28, 2008
if it is true
that she poured everything
she had
into him
then it surprises me
not at all
that her vessel has emptied
when tonight
he is so, so
full.
thank God
for Madelyn Dunham
and the man
she made.