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question everything
Linda M. Crate
march in line
swallow the status quo
be happy
seems to be the mantra the world is singing,
but i’ll have none of it;
won’t rest until every tongue of wickedness
has been defeated in the rebellion
of the war between nightmares and dreams
dreamers deserve their dreams just as artists deserve their art,
and the heart deserves to be freed of the greed and corruption
of men who think they can own other men;
my heart is too wild to agree to be
a slave to anyone—
i will never be tamed, put in their gilded cages,
or sit pretty upon their pedestals;
i will always rail and screech against their hands
will be the raven that claws out their eyes because i’m certainly
no one’s canary and my song will be for any who are
willing to hear—
i am the illusive amaranth that everyone says is false,
but i tell you as sure as the nose on your face that i am true;
it’s people who believe in lies and question nothing
that you can’t trust.
