BLAZE <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A hook\u00a0
Latched onto my heart\u00a0\u00a0
And started pulling down\u00a0\u00a0
Down\u00a0down\u00a0\u00a0
Into my gut\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I followed this hook down\u00a0\u00a0
The chain crafted\u00a0\u00a0
Securely made\u00a0\u00a0
Of injustice\u00a0\u00a0
Tyranny\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forged out of the fire\u00a0
In the souls of those\u00a0\u00a0
Oppressed\u00a0\u00a0
And beaten down\u00a0\u00a0
Into submission\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The very people\u00a0\u00a0
Working in the heat\u00a0\u00a0
To make those chains\u00a0
The flames\u00a0\u00a0
Flicking their legs\u00a0\u00a0
And arms\u00a0\u00a0
Burning the hairs\u00a0\u00a0
Searing the very skin\u00a0\u00a0
That brought them there\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They labor\u00a0\u00a0
While we sit pompous\u00a0\u00a0
Unafraid\u00a0\u00a0
Unaware\u00a0\u00a0
Unwilling\u00a0\u00a0
To change\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chain lead me down\u00a0\u00a0
To the pit in my stomach\u00a0
Filled with swirling darkness\u00a0\u00a0
And confusion\u00a0\u00a0
The pain they feel everyday\u00a0\u00a0
I feel just once\u00a0\u00a0
In a while\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a while\u00a0\u00a0
It\u2019s easy to forget\u00a0\u00a0
Lucky as I am\u00a0\u00a0
As these terrors\u00a0\u00a0
Bring me no threat\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sit atop my privilege\u00a0\u00a0
Looking down\u00a0\u00a0
At the village\u00a0\u00a0
That built me up\u00a0\u00a0
Can I break it down?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slowly\u00a0\u00a0
I climb that chain\u00a0\u00a0
Back up to my heart\u00a0\u00a0
My muscles strain\u00a0\u00a0
Against the weight of my body\u00a0\u00a0
Heavy with systems\u00a0\u00a0
That have been ingrained\u00a0\u00a0
Into my being\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On my journey\u00a0
Through gritted teeth\u00a0\u00a0
I find myself\u00a0\u00a0
Longing to carry others\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ones I\u2019ve shamed in my silence\u00a0\u00a0
Ones I could never imagine
Faces strained in pain\u00a0\u00a0
And anger and passion\u00a0\u00a0
Subtle frustrations\u00a0\u00a0
My brain can\u2019t fathom\u00a0
Lifting up those\u00a0\u00a0
Who may not need me\u00a0\u00a0
But I wish to carry\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We journey to my heart\u00a0\u00a0
Where the forces of my thoughts\u00a0
Live and die in conflict\u00a0\u00a0
A battle continuing\u00a0\u00a0
And ever increasing\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guilt rules this battle field\u00a0\u00a0
But I will no longer succumb to it\u00a0\u00a0
I\u2019ll wield it as my weapon\u00a0\u00a0
To remind me\u00a0\u00a0
Of what I\u2019m lucky enough\u00a0\u00a0
To forget\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll use my guilt\u00a0\u00a0
To keep the fire lit\u00a0\u00a0
In the place my soul sits\u00a0\u00a0
A fire kept ablaze\u00a0\u00a0
By people\u00a0\u00a0
Who were born\u00a0\u00a0
With it inside of them\u00a0\u00a0
Blazing\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"