What I really want to say is silent...

 

What I really want to say is silent

Like the growing of grasses

Or the sap that rises in a tree.

What I really want to say is silent

Like muted bird song

Or the crashing of waves on a distant shore.

What I really want to say is silent

like a volcano

Or a sound system at a festival.

What I really want to say is silent

Like a woman screaming on a mountain

Like wolf howl beneath star light

Like a toddler who has just lost their ice cream

 

What I really want to say will always be silent

To those who refuse to hear.

 Chrystine Moon 4/4/22

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BInCQ9bEY

 

Whilst we were inside......

 

They said " Stay safe" "Stay home" "Save lives",

Yet, whilst we were inside, they sold off essential services

and human rights denied.

They bent the rules,

they broke the codes,

They quaffed and snogged and drove.

They took away our rights to speak,

to breathe, to dream, to roam.

They burnt their candles at both ends

Whilst we were staying home.

 

Unless, of course, you were a "hero",

sacrificial, front-line slave.

No staying home for you! In flimsy plastic

aprons - lives to save.

Their rainbow "Thank You"s, doorstep claps,

whilst wages remain low

and what good is " Stay home, Stay safe"

if home is not safe to go?

and now, as we emerge, I wonder,

Whose lives have we saved?

What have we learned?

What do we need?

Beyond being "kind" and "brave"?

 Tho breathing still,

Shock waves extend.

What's lost? What's saved? What died?

There was more than one threat in the air

Whilst we were inside.

Chrystine Moon Feb '22

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPcceeo6WLg

You cannot do a single thing....