Some people need castle
some people need cake
Some people need water
Some people need lake

I’m fine with each and all
with play, rhythms in life
and festive fluff
What they want
does not shake

What does not rhyme with me
is my confusion of need

with want, with urge
with desire
with access with excess
as if minimally required

with priority with importance with urgency
with deciding for, by taking of
from others without consent

off of backs and off of tears
and drained from blood
and drenched with shame

into norm and into silence
and into false beauty
of acceptance

into struggle and then
into a teamed-up audacity
of judgement

against those
who do need
against those,
they, them, the other

for being angry
rather than angried
for being enslaved
rather than slave,

mentally chained
duped,
violated and raped

for feeling left out and cast aside
without claim
without a shred of the humane

This and they
Will not slip
into your sea,
eventually.

                               —animasuri’23 

Thank you, Mr. Hendrix

Thank you. limestone, from the sea

header visual: Limestone pavement at Newbiggin Crags
cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Adie Jackson – geograph.org.uk/p/551913 and thank you.