We need your voice quit hiding in the closet
Your creative streak mines a valuable deposit
In the coffers of the Earth and the great human spirit
Can you feel it? Smell it? Taste it? Can you hear it?
The days of self doubt and tamping down are through.
You are needed to help the collective pull through.
The sludge of this patriarchal nightmare breaks down
Soon revealing an equity. We’re peacefulness-bound.
Bring our your voice, your words, your kindness.
Your spontaneous true heart? Let yourself find this.
The energy that keeps us all afloat?
Must come from dispelling the fears by rote.
Say what you feel, dive into that pool.
Be free, tell the tale, be daring, be cool.
The only way to uncover this prosperous bliss
Is to speak out in tumultuous times like this.
Tricia Schwaba 2020