History's Brightest Rhyme

Together, resistance shines all the more brighter.

Photo by Joanjo Pavon on Unsplash

The idea that our institutions breath 
without man-made manipulation 
is a paper tiger choking on oil 
and dangling at the nose tip 
of a candle flame after its suspension 
ends. A puppet does not dance 
without hands to guide its strings 
and a pen does not scar letters 
onto a page without a mind 
to marry them togethe…