Afraid

I am afraid.

Afraid that time will forget

nay that people will forget

the history of our world.

They will cease to be concerned

about the bloodshed

the rapes

the murders.

Instead they will applaud the decimation

of cultures

of peoples

of lives

not like their own.

I am afraid.

Afraid that by the time my child grows

there will be no ozone

there will be no polar bears

no water falling from the sky.

I am afraid.

Afraid that the world will be overtaken

by egomaniacs

by thugs in suits

by the brainless insensitive ones.

I do not want to be afraid.

I want to stand up

not only for myself as a woman

but for the men and women

the children

that have been made less

by the powers that be.

We have forgotten 

that we….

the people are the ones with power

not those in the sandbox.

©Jay-lyn Doerksen

May 23/18