Tubmle

Our voices shattered

Against glass

And metal bars,

Fitting through edges

And sneaking through cracks

But achieving mute-

We were pebbles

Against a barricade

That refused to lower

Itself to the common-

We were the wheels

And the gears

The chains moving along,

Just another day

The mantra of a unit

The slogan

Of a falling nation

Just another day

Just another brick

Just another pebble

Wishing to shatter

The norms and ideals

Set forth

By the handful

Of faux gems

Speaking lies they call truths-

Voices that pretend

To care and notice

The dwindling moral

Of a community

That has been ‘silent’

For too long-

The pebbles are ready

To shatter the stems

Upon which the uppers

Are precariously balanced-

The pebbles are ready

To thrust rust into the gears

Keeping this ship

Afloat.

All crash down.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet and novelist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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