Such an honour to be featured here, thank you Nelly!
I happened to see this week's prompts just before 6.30am, so nearly wrote a piece at that moment! But since other family duties called, I set the muse aside to pick up some other time. Quarter past four? Twenty to twelve? We'll see... :)
Thank you so much for including my poem, Nelly! I know it wouldn't have been written without this challenge, so thank you again for giving us these prompts.
Such an honour to be featured here, thank you Nelly!
I happened to see this week's prompts just before 6.30am, so nearly wrote a piece at that moment! But since other family duties called, I set the muse aside to pick up some other time. Quarter past four? Twenty to twelve? We'll see... :)
Thank you so much for including my poem, Nelly! I know it wouldn't have been written without this challenge, so thank you again for giving us these prompts.
Vanilla lattes outside
Cool breeze after a hotspell
Think so many good people are under a spell
Why is it so hard to listen to a different perspective
When I try to tell
I know, I know
They were programmed
By those who think they were doing the right thing
Who were instructed by those who just want to control humanity
And annihilate one way or another
And replace us with a shiny human replica thing
That calculates faster and lacks a soul
And that is the agenda of the CFR
To replace doctors I'm told
They call medical care by human beings 'Legacy healthcare"
And it seems many hope most of humanity will dim
To only follow the instructions of tin
And after talking to a woman I thought was a friend
But abruptly cut the conversation to an end
When I told her my view
On a topic where it's hard to get through
I've momentarily lost my stride
I feel the anger surge - it's a ride
Can I calm the tide?
I vented to my Love, my husband
About things not right
It's been so long, so long that I've held so many feelings about the pandemic tight
I believe in kindness and freedom, equally, that's right
I believe in uncoerced choice and being given a voice
Uncensored, allowed, welcome to participate in all aspects of society
Whatever choice I make
For it is my believe grounded in science that I am less a threat to anyone's grandmother
As an unvaccinated woman
Than those who've had 7
And think that makes their morality better than mine - some think getting jabbed makes their conscience equal to heaven
While they look at me and wonder if I'm taking up space
And banned me from eating alongside those who agreed
To be part of the warp speed race
Even if in the long term in compromised the human race
While sitting at a table we love, picked up roadside to our delight
And my bitter thoughts were interrupted
By Huge yellow-black butterfly's flight
The biggest one of its kind I've ever seen
The same day as I saw a Jay, so blue, so dead on the grass
The same day m words were shutdown along with my heart
But someone I thought would have seen me from the start
Even if she did disagree with me
It hurt so much that she couldn't at least hear me
yet the Butterfly disregarded
My years of isolation
In this world where I do not fit left or right
Where it seems everyone gives their power away
To the corrupt
I couldn't believe that thought she knows my heart
And that my husband is a doctor too
She could so easily shut down
My opinion true, with disregard to listen to a viewpoint grounded in science
It's the just science that gets dismissed
Because agendas would get pissed
If they couldn't control the masses
And divide us into vaxed and unvaxed classes
Yet here the butterfly
Huge winged
Yellow-black
Reminds me to rise
Above the gaslighting, silencing, shutting me down flack
Delicate Power
Does bring Light
Flits and flies
Summer
The rhythm of this. It swirled and shifted. And I love how it ended.
Thank you <3 It was very healing and cathartic to write it - I feel much better! <3