Genderpendence Day

I cry because my love could lose her livelihood for loving me and yet she loves

I cry because to live is a gift I thought was curse and now I refuse to die

I cry because today we are not great, but someday we could be good

Is violence all we now know

Can we know now how to stop this

Can we turn a table upside down

Down is up is what is the upside

What is the inside of a killer

Is their DNA barbed wire

Why’re we like this

I like poetry

Because english grammar

is stupid

And when you write a poem

You are a genius for

ignoring

said

mediocrity