Grace at dVerse is hosting Meeting the Bar, and the theme we are invited to write about is Protest. dVerse Poets – Meeting the Bar – Protest Poetry
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel
Dear Leaders There is no life in you, you who are nothing more than a husk blowing in the winds of rebellion, I see your guns and gas uniformed in fear of decency as you sneer at the sensitivities of ordinary people concerned for some semblance of democracy midst the pious, honeyed corruption you pedal to steal the dreams of our children as you piss in our waters and foul our fields with your poisonous rhetoric so religiously flavoured as to make God vomit, while you continue to kill your own as if blood stains down your highways is some note of triumph for the totems you bend to in your spineless dereliction of humanity. You can kill my body but you will never kill my enduring spirit that is me, we, together naming your legacy of fetid lies and murder, and we will make a road of integrity to pass right over you without memorial or reward save for some flowers to mark the hollow graves that you are. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
