she scared me
coming here that way
all loud and big and professing now now now
do not sleep she says
do not rest and wait
now now now she says
it is time to take the terror in hand and mold it into something to throw back at them
now now now she says it is the time to create a story that can be bullied through the bullhorn into action across the land
now I say now I am here
my world right here
present yes you assess as if inactionable
these arms reach even if your voice does not elicit fire from their fingertips
this heart expands even if it does not stoke the fire of rage
this mind enfolds even if it does not grasp the directive of annihilation
for don’t you see you are asking back at the very thing you desire gone with the same energy in which it attacks
I am not of that world