Power

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What is power?

In a plutocracy, power is money.

When a mayor ousts an incredible

human being and efficient overseer of

our community - is it now unreturnable?

In the election, democrats raised

unthinkable amounts of money from

small donations.

If money was power, we should have won.

A million voices can sing

in solidarity, but the song is

without power.

Perhaps it was always you and me

that little bird that flew from sea to shining sea

following leylines

to bring about change.

Although,

that bird and its flock only

are truly surviving on instinct.

So in this society, I guess power is

bending with the wind: for,

We are not birds

we are not trees

We are human beings.

Does nature require power to survive?

It leans into the cycles and finds a way to survive

and make do with the little resources

competition may take up.

Until, of course,

the spiney black and white fish

are spread into the seas they should not be.

Killing coral and terraforming the Atlantic.

Was this the issue all along?

I’ve been searching for answers where there are none?

And still,

I see the women so strongly standing up and fighting
fighting with such little power the regulatory system allows
and it inspires me.
I do not need to survive or thrive. I just need to endure and help where I can and when I can with what I have.