(Raise Your Voice) Weapons v.s. Souls (a poem)

Raise Your Voice

Weapons vs. Souls

Started on May 19th, 2011

Finished on May 25th, 2011

You cover your wrongs so the world won’t see

You murder our freedoms, our humanity

Shove a gun down our throats when we try to speak

Block us from the information we seek

The ones who see through your mask disappear

Cutting short opposition by instilling fear

 

Send your pawns to take us out

We’ll face your bullets, unarmed, still we shout

Shoot us down till we’re piled high in the street

Till crimson blood pools around your feet

We died for a cause, died for the future, true and brave

While you hide behind walls, trying to outrun the grave

(Raise Your Voice) The Pentacle and Cross (a poem)

Added to 'Raise Your Voice' collection May 25th, 2011
The Pentacle and Cross

Written March 9th, 2011

I wear a pentacle

On my breast

Dangling from a thin silver chain

You bear a cross

Upon your chest

So very different,

Yet so very much the same

In their causes

For peace,

               Kindness,

                              Empathy,

                                            and hope

Medicinal Shower (a poem)

Medicinal Shower

Written February 2011

I turn the knob

Adding more heat

Letting the water burn my skin

Stinging needles falling on me

As I hold myself

Feeling little waterfalls

Cascade from the cliff

Of my soft lips

That are no longer yours

To kiss

*Catfish (a poem)

Catfish

Little tiny girl

With bright light

Captured in her shiny curls

Peering into a bucket of water

At the catfish her dad plans to slaughter

He was putting up a fight

When first caught

But now at the bottom lay still

His only movement the flickering of a gill

Knowing that far from sight

Is the freedom he sought.