This week's poem

they sit and wonder

i usually first write poems with colored markers

I think a simple rebellion against capitalism is doing something just because you love doing it and no other reason. Which is why I’m committing to writing more poems. I’m writing these just for fun and I’m giving myself permission to call them poems. It took me a while to do that.

The mean part of me kept yelling, you’re not a poet, you can’t call what you are writing poetry. So I told the mean part of me to be quiet and that if I want to call what I’m doing poems I can.

Onto the poem…it’s called “they sit and wonder”

they sit and wonder

they sit and wonder

whether they can wonder

beyond the constraints of a world that doesn’t want them to wonder

a world that destroys wondering

a world that constrains wondering

they struggle, they fight

but what was lost cannot be recovered

it must be rebuilt

so they have to keep wondering

and together all their wondering

will build something new

something they can’t do alone

I hope you enjoyed “they sit and wonder” and I hope you give yourself time to sit and wonder with your community to build a better world.

We can do that,

❤️

Marcela