Back to Life
Are we ready now?
To know thoroughly
That which we've survived
The unspeakable harms
We have carried on
The wounds we made alive
As if natural
The things we have fed our pain
In the name of hurt
Or rejection
Or approval
Do we know change?
That there are worlds upon worlds
Beyond this one
Where those who have sustained
The worst atrocities
Live on unmolested
By the base ideas that robbed them
Of lives
Otherwise full with promise
Taken from them
Hostile and wanton
Are we not tired
Of begging of life
What it already gives
Without provocation?
Do we still believe
Death is the problem
That is in need of remedying?
Billions have bled
And pleaded
And needed
And died
Wanting more kindness
Or understanding
Or freedom
Or life
And we, the living
Stand upon them
To survive
When we could thrive
It is the self that is powered
And the selves that are influenced
It is the me that is capable
Even when the we is disinterested
I am the one
Worthy of saving
In need of changing
Able to rearrange things
If I want it
If I want it
If I want it
It is mine for the embracing
For the awakening
For the taking
For the making
