 It’s time to flap your wings and sting against the powers and their wrongdoings. because power lies with whom or who? the power that lets the wrongdoer through? The powers that abet a mean landlord to evict a pregnant woman on his own terms, because she complained of the cement dust. these powers that encourage the rich man’s lust. Will no one flap their wings and sting? as they belittle and dehumanize us, it's time to speak up, out and about the wrong that the powers tout. For this route we are on no doubt is designed to lock us all out or is it up to them to determine our destiny, because these powers don't ever want to hear us out because we are always wrong. so soon I won't belong because they always find me wrong. the powers are strong but not smart defiling my family with their sharp retorts and they let a raving maniac walk out It’s time to flap your wings because too much wrong is going on and the powerful people just sit on and watch us suffer but we will have buffer the noises and the poisons that are all set up to extinguish us. Speak out my people speak out and don't let anyone run us out or lock us down, when we know we did no wrong it’s time to flap our wings and sting Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI who began writing in 1996. You can find her work in her 2023 Kindle book, "Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt," on her blog, "Words of Ribbon," in "Virgin Islands Callaloo: Poems from the Caribbean," and on the Visual Verse website. She performs at local events, and online poetry readings and was recently nominated for a 2024 National Spoken Words Award for Best International Artist.
Links: Blogger: https://wordsofribbon.blogspot.com/ Kindle Book: https://www.amazon.com/Be-Inspired-Poems-Linette-Rabsatt-ebook/dp/B0BXBNFZ9H Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LinetteInspireVI Twitter: https://twitter.com/LRabsatt YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LARabsatt Image by Vincent van Zalinge
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