Time Assured

I saw this on the side of a van.
A company that restores clocks.
I just had to write a poem.
Hopefully it works. Ha!

We can rise up to the call.
Challenge the rhetoric.
Lay down and die, or
act to stop the carnage.

We can grieve for who we were,
or fight for who we are.
We can keep face,
or say to hell with it.

You are not my keeper.
I am not yours.
You don’t own me.
Nor I you.

I am a free woman.
Democracy is my right.
I will not give it away.
I will not give it to you.

Writing for Social Change
You will not take my heritage.
What is rightfully mine.
I vow to live my life.
To keep my freedom.

For far too long,
you have controlled my life.
Controlled my voice. My body.
You have crushed my soul.

For far too long,
you have controlled who I am.
You will not stop, will you?
Neither will I.