WE ARE HERE

Monroe MI No Kings rally

Words fail. our bodies stand in streets.

Count us if you can.

We are all here on the hard pavement

sun sweat feet: we stand exhausted/exhilarated

taking back the flag, garnering words,

collecting music; we have tales to tell

epics to hand our children.

We are here. We are here.

The poetry is ours. The songs, ours.We are the streets

we are the cities

we will keep

the stolen power

we will stay here on our streets

we will stand.

Words failed.

Perhaps we did not treasure them enough.

We learned. We are here. We march.

This is the land we keep

for our children

for the children of migrants

children of the poor

for children

who will one day read in our history books

how democracy

nearly died.

We are here.

We have the words.

We have the guts,

the anger,

the love,

the song;

we fill the streets.

We are here.

-Sharon Kourous, Indivisible group Stronger Together, Monroe MI