Tag: politics

La Lluita Persistent; The Persistent Fight

The struggle continues
Outside the halls of learning
Where words are emblazoned
Even shouted in the square
Beyond the walls designed
To confine them

Between
slaves
the one who
protects
the master is
the most
cowardly

A place in the world
Embattled and oppressed
Like so many other
Places in the world
Nonetheless
Vibrant, passionate, alive

The year
Grew darker
Every day

Grim hope
Bleak finale

Reset: next!

Tears reign
Glittering
From the cheeks
Of multitudes

Driven to despair
By the shepherds
Of fear

Reeking of the violence
Wrought by anger

And the platitudes of righteousness

In the brooding atmosphere
Of patterns woefully disturbed
I seek glimmers of possibility
I optimistically call

Hope

The beauty of an amber sky
Belies a failure
Of political will
And the premature deaths
Of millons

I remember a time
When simply breathing
Was dangerous

A time before
The Clean Air Act of 1970
The Environmental Protection Agency
Which gave the Act bite
And enforced its many regulations

I am reminded of that time
When I travel to countries
Which ignore the science
Or have no political will
To preserve the Earth
Which sustains us

Music created
The world I live in
A strange place
Of every possibility

Progressive
Political
Psychedelic
Spiritual

The tears of the nation
Fell like rain
Until the lakes became seas
And the rivers poison
Until salt rime
Clogged every creek

So long as the people cried
They lived in their fears
They lived with their losses
Bemoaning the fate
Which had befallen them
Paralyzed with grief