Revolution

Has anyone seen the legible clues,
read between the hands of time that our world
is anything but naturally understandable?
Our breathing-- monitored, our hearts-- checked
for alien signs, our thoughts-- emptied;
Weeks ago, I found an anthology of all your
reminiscences from when you were only a child.
You are barely a woman now but even I cannot
piece you back together, for you are shattered
and often evade me.

They tranquilized your courage.

No one here knows about violence, thinking
war could never be a pronounced solution and
weapons would be impossible to kill with.
Nonetheless, I will massacre this silence
with my love for times when humanity didn't always
choose stoicism due to their fear of living
without reservations, boundaries, secure hearts.
No one's winning and that is why
I just can't look away.

Someone needs to break gravity.

So I move on, no longer letting go and entombing
my soul in harvested fields.
I will walk through the remains of an all too forgiving city,
trying my best to live so I may defy.

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written for Day 5 of Colm's contest. Incorporate one line of your poem into a new poem, taking a new turn if you can. The line I used was "to live so I may defy".