Wednesday, November 11, 2020

numbers aren't enough (poem)

celebration feels too soon
true victory has not come yet

have any chickens hatched
or are we just counting eggs?

it feels a long time coming
maybe soon we might relax
some sort of decency achieved

a forest fire finally put out

but it burns viciously still
fighting desperately against us

its fuel has not run dry
we've only extinguished a small part.

i want to believe in victory
but i cannot trust our eggs to hatch.

-Zero

 

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