
“I know the removal of the Colston statue will divide opinion, as the statue itself has done for many years. However it’s important to listen to those who found the statue an affront to humanity.” Marvin Rees (Mayor of Bristol)
Rising The statues of subjugation crash to the ground of the past, we're loving a new now, the beginning of future dreams, free-ranged, unwrapped, letting go Aquarius' aged darkness, rising to unison of heart, pace the whispers of worm tongues who would hold oppression lightly, but whose account is well due. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: I have used pace in preposition form, expressing disagreement with worm tongues with those who support enslavement of any kind.