it’s been said that a true revolutionary is guided by immense feelings of love
that it’s impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality
…
this is what i strive for
to be guided by love
as effortlessly as the branches bend with every passing breeze
to heal
holistically
with my sisters
and myself
to be a true revolutionary
without the dogmatic rhetoric
the patriarchy
the competition and insecurities
mashed into the folds of our skin by this life
soaking up our very essence of living
leaving nothing but survival tactics
this is what i strive for
to be a true revolutionary
so in love with life and the people
with the ancestors and my sisters
…
the salt of the earth fresh on my palette
i can taste the liberation swimming through my arteries and ventricles
yearning to be unleashed
as necessary as breath
inhale…exhale…go
propelled.by.fire. 