a letter for jane addams

miss addams, 

i am sorry that history doesn't remember you, 

i am sorry that those who do don't think you were important. 

i know you spent your life trying to feed the hungry, 

they needed you. 

i hear you haven't been eating lately. 

for janie, (can i call you that?) 

i'm sorry that i sliced the mail-order pocket knife through your thigh (again).

i'm really sorry that you didn't even feel it. 

dad would be so sad if he knew what we've been using that knife for. 

dear jane, 

i'm so sorry i brought you back from the dead for this. 

to jane addams,

i think you did something important. 

dearest jane,

i hope they didn't hurt you. 

my darling jane, 

you saved them, let them save you now. 

let your heart be cradled in hands equally as soft.