Tuesday, June 9, 2020

With A Poem

I'm not going to change
your mind with a poem
I couldn't make you act
differently or better
if I tried
That is not within my power
But what is
Is how I choose to speak
How I choose to respond
How I choose to behave
and decide
That the world cannot stay this way
Abusing and confusing and destroying
each other
That the planet cannot stay this way
Exhausting and depleting
and stripping and melting
That We, The People, cannot
stay this way
We were born to love
We were born to create
And so, in the now of this
very moment
I will not stay this way
With my heart breaking
Every day
Although I cannot
Change your mind
With a poem.

~

RN

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

the wall, breached

there will be no peace
until all people are
equally free.
and there will be 
nothing close to freedom
until the constructs
of oppression
that exist
crumble down.

So what are you 
building with
your life --
another wall ?

~

RN

Monday, June 1, 2020

love is blind

navigating
these walls
in the dark
eyes 
cut out
only fingertips
left
searching.

~

RN