A Cold Day (spoken word performance)
Spoken word poetry performance. "Cold day" was written in response to the Parkland school shooting the US. For me, it was a week full of tears, clicking video after video, reading tweets and text messages. I have so much respect for this generation. I see the trauma they are living through, and even then, their response is to change the narrative and lay siege to the empire. (Performed at "Women Talk" event in Vancouver, BC).
COLD DAY
It is a cold day
When I click on the news
I see a burial cloth woven around the children
I curse
I sob
And the snow falls quiet around me
There is a spawning evil thing
Weaving a cold white cloth
On a bitter, bitter day
It weaves around them
And us
I see it
Cold and white
It comes
They will ask about
The day the stories stopped
The day the tears came
I will tell them
It was cold, like stone
Fast, hard
And full of sorrow
One by one
By one
In the doors
In the hallways
Alone
Together
Screaming as the cloth tightens around them
I will tell them
That I heard the horror
I watched your shaky videos
Gulping as I felt that shroud
Tighten around my own neck
Saw its thread spinning and taking us all
I am alone now
Alone and far away
And cold and still
And full of sorrow
But there is no gentle going for me
As I pull the woven tightness
Off my throat
The fate of the bard
Is to live and to tell
Rest in Peace
Children, Teachers, Lovers
I have work to do
© Diane Currie Sam
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