04-14-2018, 12:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-14-2018, 01:46 AM by RiverNotch.)
An Illusion of Power
Even the boy with a voice
that gives "voice" to the "voiceless"
by paying attention to the little details of their lives
and screaming, both loudly and softly,
"revolution!"
has not voice nor power nor even mind
enough to recognize that he has no voice
nor power nor even mind,
not until his victim, a squatter from another neighborhood,
shushes him with a stare
or until he finds that what he calls "survival"
is usually termed "growing up" or "getting a life"
and leaves few people scarred
across the throat.
Even the boy with a voice
that gives "voice" to the "voiceless"
by paying attention to the little details of their lives
and screaming, both loudly and softly,
"revolution!"
has not voice nor power nor even mind
enough to recognize that he has no voice
nor power nor even mind,
not until his victim, a squatter from another neighborhood,
shushes him with a stare
or until he finds that what he calls "survival"
is usually termed "growing up" or "getting a life"
and leaves few people scarred
across the throat.