You are all fired up
sending flames of distress instead of cozy warmness
I question you
Why not colour this night with dancing sparkles?
Why not share your radiant warmness?
Why not show a smoky smile?
You answer in ardent movements
consuming news in abrasive outbursts
flaming this world’s blood reality
No more reminders of hunger
No more reading material
No more war photos
No empty tears
No deception
Your highly exothermic reaction
stops me from approaching you
Your explosion shakes me
Ignited red paper articles transmute into grey ash
Maybe you are right
We should all flame those words
SHOUT at passive acceptance
Question the deaths
the distress
the power
humanity
_____Adriana Citlali
XIX-XI-MMXIV
NOTE: Tomorrow, 20th November 2014, we officially celebrate the 104th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. Today it is difficult to argue that the country is in a position to have any celebration. I do not advocate violence, and do not propose to use it either. However, I do advocate a reaction, to not accept this reality, to fight for human rights, for security, for a stop of violence, a human humanity, peace.
I cannot say that I have been active enough… A poem can be a start.
Today’s fired-up poem got surprisingly inspired by a random choice of an adjective and a noun (pervasive fireplace) after Marina Sofia’s prompt at Poetics: Make the Abstract Concrete… | dVerse.
I agree with your comment and wish for peace in Mexico.
And to your poem – I never considered it before, but love can certainly be exothermic. 🙂
I can understand why the Mexican people want justice, fairness and accountability rather than deaths and corruption. Hopefully one day there will be “No more war photos / No empty tears / No deception.”
Yes, a poem can be a good start…ideas are powerful! May peace overcome violence, may justice win its war. Felicidades a Mexico!
def. we should never stop fighting… and a poem can be a start…it always starts with words in fact… wishing mexico peace…
Direct and effective poetry. I really enjoyed reading this.
Sending peaceful thoughts your way….
The metaphor of the fireplace works perfectly. Words might sometimes not be enough, and what a contrast to the dread of a northern climate.
Peace to Mexico please. It’s true that the fight for a decent humanity is continuous. At first, I laughed at the heading, ‘Pervasive Fireplace’, but then of course didn’t. Fire is cleansing, honest anger too.
Forgot to mention: http://broadstrokes.org/2014/11/19/the-art-of-change-new-trends-in-activist-art/ Just proves that the Arts can change things, and one has to start somewhere.
Thanks a lot for your kind message and the link. I really enjoyed learning about new activist art and the work of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. There is definitely hope that arts will also contribute to the change!
Peace to Mexico…
Thank you all for your kind messages and for the support and encouragement to my country. Things have to change. I have to believe that there is hope for my country.