Seventeen years ago
our world was changed forever...
Why did the rain fall sting on all my days
and why did branded skin refuse to heal...
Forced to retreat,
Peal me off this seat...
Macmillan cancer research...
the Pride flag dances
with glee now its red can flow...
Snaking veins do clot and crawl the
upper screams of slaughtered fools...
In my town - not a city like Rio Verde,
The Circus arrived with January's festival...
They were all there;
so many faces and...
You want to hear of an African story?
...My story I mean...
Inside I have an urgent need to hug. . .
She knows this time I shouldn’t need to ask...
. . . and so it happened,
a newest family member...
left as
a gift...