May my rage sustain me

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I don’t know how to make sense of the world

I don’t know how to cure it,

like water seeping through my hands

all I’m left with

is a hope

a drop

drying out my skin,

collective action

wrecked in factions

another poem

added to the archive

fury uphold

this perseverance

is my existence

resistance enough?

Like a diver

blind

feeling out coral ridges and fans

I’m cutting myself

between truth and lies

unable to tell what feels right

except the pain

in a nation of plagiarization and anger

history is written by the winners,

the present is owned by the rich,

who am I,

I’m just resisting,

through dust I’m sifting

out the crevices of my mind

for courage

but the help of therapy only seeks

to fix the “broken” cog

to put it back

and make the machine work

and I wasn’t ever a cog

I don’t want to break to fit myself in shape,

I despise

turning a piece in the factory,

hustle of existing

wish of persisting

isn’t it enough

just to wanna be free?

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4 thoughts on “May my rage sustain me

  1. Dear Jordyn,

    I have had the pleasure of listening to your music entitled “May My Rage Sustain Me” on SoundCloud, where I left you the following comment:

    Well done! Nevertheless, you might want to pay attention to sonic and timbral distortions, unless they are intended (to convey your rage and exhaustion).

    Thank you for your excellent poem delivered with your usual emotional flair and existential angst. The relevance of your poem is such that you may indeed submit it as a comment to my latest post as shown below, which specifically mentions to readers that their comments can be in the form of prose, poetry, image, audio, video and/or infographic:

    𒅌👨‍✈️👮⌐╦̵̵̿ᡁ᠊╾━ A Tale of Two Soldiers: Pacifism, Activism or Armed Resistance in the Face of Aggression? 💨💥╾━╤デ╦︻ඞා🕊️☮️📢🪧💪🛡️

    Happy April to you, whatever and wherever your rage and exhaustion will lead or free you!

    Yours sincerely,
    SoundEagle🦅

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      1. Dear Jordyn,

        Yes, thank you for replying at SoundCloud as follows:

        @soundeagle: Yes, the distortion was intentional:) Though in retrospect, I could have used it a little less frequently on this track.

        I would like to inform you that my said post has been meticulously improved and extended with additional prose, illustrations and animations, which can only be seen as intended at the post in situ, not via the WordPress Reader that is unable to show many of the advanced features and animations in my posts and pages.

        You are very welcome to submit your poem as a comment with a weblink to your current post containing the poem to indicate its origin. Please feel free to augment your poem with additional information in any format that you desire, including prose, image, audio, video and/or infographic.

        Yours sincerely,
        SoundEagle🦅

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      2. Dear Jordyn,

        If you like, your poem can be grouped into stanzas for better readability, just as a long prose is grouped into paragraphs. Preferably, the lines within each stanza should be close together such that consecutive lines are not separated by a blank line.

        Yours sincerely,
        SoundEagle🦅

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