I went for a walk today

To feel the political climate

On the landscape

People look piteously (tho I’m sorry for them)

Evangelicals preach at cafes (coffees hot in the backwaters)

Misogyny by construction (they’re building a new Stralia)

Women go apeshit at I, the bad female Beatles

All, sheeplike (colonists herded like indigenous with hooves digging up the soil)

The birds sing (they love the daylight)

Trees call out (always about love)

And I saw the road, buildings and lights

Crumbling to dust

And the earth rise up

And I know my wings

I’m sure of them now

I looked up

Unafraid

Tho perhaps my fate be

Burned at the stake

Just sadly, this was the best humans thought up

There’s magic

Moisture hovering, ready to form

I am free

Chasing a diamond

Like the dragon,

Thru hell

I gleam

I am free

I love myself, as if I finally found myself

After a lifetime

And I think now, I can love