
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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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:
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:
Happy April to you, whatever and wherever your rage and exhaustion will lead or free you!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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I did see (and reply to) that comment on SoundCloud. Happy April to you as well! I might take you up on that offer to share this poem as a comment on your post…
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Dear Jordyn,
Yes, thank you for replying at SoundCloud as follows:
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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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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