Liberty is dying
                 sure
but we’ve known that.
Two months ago we heard it scream.
On January 6^th we waded through its blood
          barely able to keep our head above the flow.

In 2016 it’s attackers announced themselves
their intent
                      their accomplices
and spent four years brutalizing it.

August 10^th 2017: Stabbed

October 6^th 2018: Stabbed

October 27^th 2020: Stabbed

We’ve felt its pain in thousands of similar cuts
              its longing in empty positions
                         its hopelessness in lack of protection

Liberty is all but dead
and the only thing keeping it alive
is the malevolence of its attackers
who more than anything
             to torture it forever;

To keep you thinking
                        somehow
                         it will pull through.

To give them more time to pervert and destroy,
manipulate the numbers to make fascist oligarchy
look like democracy

Reminding you that
                     your voice matters

But it doesn’t
     sometimes change requires more than words.