Category Writing
Day for Night
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Written 11/3/2020 1:00 am Election day is here at last And I know I’m truly ready To see it past at last. Steady On, my brain cries, Have You checked the color of The skies? All year long, It’s felt like day is really Night. […]
Given Permission?
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When being given permission to hate Brings out more hate than we thought, Imagined possible, how do we reconcile? When we not only believe we harbor No hate, but also fear that we’re wrong. Not that we’re wrong about our ideals, But that we are […]
We Will Bequeath
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When, one day, we become but voices, Remembered but by voices from the past, We’ll have moved onward and outward. Might we then finally understand at last? Must we waft through the sky, as a cloud, Stand silently like trees, recording days, In seasons’ silent, […]
Your Turn or Mine
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ To watch the leaves floating down. Something I remember from youth. In the Midwest and the East, where Season change in ways you notice. Unlike the subtle thinning of veils Between this one and the next one. Ultimately comes to the same end. Like the […]
Song and Sorrow
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ My story is one of song and sorrow That’s been told long years before. Should it then be shared tomorrow? Our many futures as others kissing, Use my lips, caress with my hands? I’m the newly born, shocked awake In the cold, sterile light of […]
Far Away
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Does it bother you That arachnids have eight legs? Or that snakes have none? I am sure they must have come From a planet far away. ~~~~ VOTE, November 3, 2020! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ See […]
Then or Now
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When did the presage of prophets and sages Then bid the message of profits not wages? No longer the days the world driven by we, So long; now days the world driven by me. Is it still possible to change our world now? Is our […]
Except
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The days of October count down And the spirits draw near the veil. Even while they are all around us. Some of them may wait, watch us. Some of them may watch over us. Except those who linger to haunt. As the veil thins ever […]
Thinking Allowed
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Everything I’m about to tell you is true. Everything I’m about to tell you is a lie. My words will reach you after the sound of the car racing toward you, before the flying debris of the crash, the screaming, blood, pain and death. In […]
Sweep Away Darkness
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Am I having a nightmare or living in one? Can’t escape, whether under moon or sun. It’s when my eyes are open, when closed. Feels like I’m in a race riot, just got hosed. Most people that I see are wearing masks. Those without scare […]
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