POEM: Unleashed

As anger and grief morphs
Into the habits and vagaries of daily
The heart is circled by its waggin's
In loo of revolutions more roil
As if
Too be stuck
In
The mettle
Only to be
Haunted by cursory echoes
Of lives a custom to be frayed
Of what might be
Stranded
Into the unbreakable
Accord
As knot the tear or stricken
And still
The heart fastens
that grows
Unleashed

This poem addresses the challenges of palpable anger and grief “normalizing” as goes on.  The necessities and sheer habits of everyday living bear down on overflowing passions, often sublimating such powerful emotions into more comfortable or familiar patterns.  This can tamp down more impulses for changes in .  Such coping is commonplace.

Such a process causes me to reflect on the current post-election era.  The System Was Never Broken It Was BUILT That Way - POLITICAL BUTTONI remember the outrage when Baby Bush beat Al Gore only with the intervention of the , in the face of a popular vote and electoral college squeaker fraught with irregularities and inadequacies.  I noted how the un-sexy issue of the mechanics of and receded from in due course within a matter of months.  Multiple presidential election down the road, many of these election and deficiencies continue largely unfixed.  The electoral college has taken US to school again!  Plus, the striking down of key elements of the Voting Rights Act has left -level shenanigans with voter suppression to run rampant.  Add in the increasingly surreal gerrymandering of voting districts and the democratic process is literally moot for most of in .

While our democracy stays the course on being massively dysfunctional at so many levels, this election cycle, a vicious cycle, is a quantum leap in dangerous effect.  Stop Hate STOP Sign -- POLITICAL BUTTONThe , , anti-, and anti-immigrant xenophobia reached for new heights and historic lows during the campaign.  Women, people of color, Muslims, and immigrants have legitimate reasons to worry on both a daily basis and what looms in the .  , , and xenophobic nationalism are being baked into the Donald Trump regime.  While in many ways this is nothing new to folks, the stunning respectability of sexual assault braggadocio, scorn of Black Lives Matter, collusion with white supremacists, and a fortress mentality could easily converge into the most authoritarian presidential administration in our lifetimes, if not ever, in .

This poem is a warning of the dangers of “normalization,” and a call to the difficult, lifelong, trans-generational that needs to be done.  Courage Trumps Fear PEACE BUTTONI don't believe that such can be done unless it is equipped with hope.  This poem culminates in the hope that by reaching deep and going long the of wholehearted people will supply needed power to resolute minds and steadfast hands to further incarnate seemingly impossible for all.

Dealing with endemic injustices calls for a demanding between daily coping and cultivating a long-haul way of that shrewdly generates and regenerates, creates and recreates, produces and reproduces just and heartening habits of behavior and ways of being in the world.  Will the better side of prevail over the genocide of America?  We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools--Martin Luther King, Jr. BUTTONAll I can say is that when sides are drawn, I know which side I hope and plan to be on.  As Martin Luther King, Jr. so plainly observed and prophesied, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”  Though I would update this a bit and expect to see sisters steadfastly leading this fight.  Some things don't change.  This can be a good thing.

 

SHIFT HAPPENS POLITICAL BUTTONThe Ones Who Are Crazy Enough To Think They Can Change The World Are The Ones Who Do POLITICAL BUTTONAll the darkness in the world could not put out the light of one small candle. Jewish Holocaust victim's epitaph POLITICAL BUTTON

The Enemy Is Fear. We Think It Is Hate, But It is Fear -- Gandhi quote POLITICAL BUTTONFear does not prevent death; it prevents life --Nagub Mahfouz quote POLITICAL BUTTONLife shrinks or expands according to one's courage --Anais Nin quote POLITICAL BUTTON

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