Not Just For Show

So it’s over, was that it?

Standing here in aftermath

No celebration, mediation, meditation

Just frustration.

Now what?

Give up and surrender to the loss, crawl under our blankets of recluse?

I refuse

Go back to the disappointments that no longer surprise me?

Grovel in the chances lost to make that change we all anticipated?

Red, white and blue, for who?

Not you, but you, the few, too few!

What happened to the rainbow?

Every color, every gender every right, right?

I refuse to settle now, idle in my room watching scenes of promises on TV

After experiencing all the revelry and pride, I will step out side, not cower and hide

Because of PRIDE!

The drive still lives it moves inside, calling, screaming, reassuring that the spark of change was lit

A fire burns where once there were oceans of suppression

No hiding or returning to what was, it’s gone, we exposed and burned it

We DID that!