Sunday, 6 July 2025

AND IN THE END WE’LL KNOW


Betrayed but never trumped 
there was never the test we all could reply to 
we worked

we sang

we shouted

wrote letters to the editor

we voted


but

nothing worked

the guilty never

apologised

they got their staff

to express

what they themselves

could not admit

snickering in the game room

priding themselves

on winning the game

whatever and whenever


they are not the rich

not the privileged

not the prized

or prettiest

not the ones who spoke

on stages

in white shirts

not the factory owners

the doctors or the winners

at soccer or hockey

or chocolate factory owners

not even Scrooge


not those we wrote about

in great adventures

putting their lives at risk

trying to control the monster

not the handsome movie star

the tap dancer

or composer of symphonies


these are not to blame

entirely

they are the ones

who wrote the patriarchy

and blamed the witches

those who built muscle

on misogyny

who claimed every voice

a lie if it didn’t praise

the war against the mystery

of life.


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AND IN THE END WE’LL KNOW

Betrayed but never trumped  there was never the test  we all could reply to  we worked we sang we shouted wrote letters to the editor we...