LIKE AN ISLAND

         

LIKE AN ISLAND 

 

I’m quarantined 

Learning to love my aloneness 

Not concerning ceremonious womanliness, 

Maintain a harmonious

Fighting to survive intolerance, tight fistedness of ruin, 

from our wealthy brothers and sisters. 

The poor give more than the rich

Poor pay bigger taxes, 

Trumped by our white house orange debacle 

Citizens dying from streptococcal

symptoms - live in mass pandemonium 

people blind like they’re on opium

sanctimonious created fraudulent-ness

intolerantness speaks loudly, devoutly, profoundly evil

worldly unrest and upheaval 

quarantine inside my abode 

carrying a heavy load

my body bowed

inability to unload

keep a heavy workload

dreading the latest episode

of color code, religious code,

hate showed – snowed in and about to implode

lifestyles eroding with each new foreboding 

will we ever overcome

see what we can become

if to love and tolerance we succumb

Problem is humanity too dumb

to embrace love and tolerance 

together we must overcome 

and not be overrun

till that day comes, beat my drum

pray to raise new awareness that love is everywhere

Love is everywhere