November Looms

Welcoming a harvest moon
Nighttime children come into bloom
Soon the raindrops will concentrate
Encompass the world in a frozen dew

‘Til then, this fire will warm your heart
As your mind begins to embrace the dark
Second guessing second nature
As November begins to loom

Watching the colors fade into gray
Losing hope along the way
Winter breeds a death too soon
Perhaps even a bloodless coup?

I’ve watched a tyrant tear us down
As nighttime children gather ‘round
This fire burns inside you too
Desperate ages too late to bloom

The winter’s cold will soon embrace
Every heart that shall partake
In rendering a final word
As November beings to loom

Watching the colors fade to gray
Will hopes and prayers come to save the day?
Snowfall waters, a hopeless brew
Will I still drown here with you?

I’m wary of this blood red moon
A fear sets in as November looms
Can no one save us from Winter’s scorn?
Will any one of us live so long?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Will Have Her Revenge on the United States

To bear a false witness
For a lack of resistance
And I will bear your cross no more
If nothing is moving
For the point that you’re proving
What is the point of your useless score?

Turn in your robe for a Handmaid’s gown
Subservience known the whole world round
Slave girl, who are trying to fool?
And I will have my revenge on you

You take up my body
As if you now own me
A commodity bred for breeding seed
This life now acknowledged
To your dominant bondage
Bound to reproductive slavery

Turn in your robe for a Handmaid’s gown
Subservience known the whole world round
Slave girl, who are trying to fool?
And I will have my revenge on you

Am I not human?
Just a televised Truman?
Is this how you wish to entertain
Your bought and sold masters?
Repeat your fathers’ disasters?
For a power your sisters could not attain?

Turn in your robe for a Handmaid’s gown
Subservience known the whole world round
Slave girl, who are trying to fool?
And I will have my revenge on you

Turn in your soul for a longer leash
A traitorous hag to patriarchy
Deliver a generational wound
And we shall have our revenge on you

Beholden

I am not beholden to anyone
You are not owed an excuse or explanation
If you feel you have been wronged
Take it up with someone else
I have just dismissed you from my conscience

I am no one’s sidekick or loyal servant
I am only loyal to what brings my ends
I do right because right needs to be done
But sometimes wrongs are righteous, too
And I have deemed you worthy of ignoring you

You are not beholden to decency
Thus why I dismiss you eternally
Enjoy your days as far away
As I stay here in a blissful haze
And no one will ever need to bother you

I am not beholden to anyone
You are not my master or my employer
Why would you want to follow
When you can forge your own road?
I owe you nothing, so leave me be

Dorothy Jane

I’ve watched you in the window as you spoke to the Man in the Moon
Wishing I had someone as interesting to talk to as you
With your light southern drawl and your innocent love
Of the simple things, small, private, and yours alone
If only I could be as close to you as the Man in the Moon
In the quiet things that no one ever knows
As we tell ourselves the tales of ordinary days
I dream of you with the Man in the Moon
Sitting together at night by your window
Sharing our stories, our thoughts and our dreams
Hoping that someone out there is listening to us

As we profess a love beyond ourselves

Into the night's sky, never to be forgotten

Opposite Lovers

I’m living from left to the right

Between the Heavens and Hell

Inside me, there’s a tornado

That could tear my world apart

I could be disassembled

Then put myself back together

But would any of that matter

If I were to lose my heart?

I dream of resolution

As if peace were mine to hold

I am longing for justice

Just to find my needs ignored

What is the opposite of love?

Could it be truly hatred?

Chances are I’m overthinking

Maybe you’ve just gotten bored

We are opposite lovers

Too far apart to be absolved

How could I know if I’d love your soul

Inside the body of another?

I don’t know who you are

I’m not a mystery to solve

But your absence leaves me cold

As I’m sure you’ll soon discover