Three Poems, Dana Trick

 

Time 

Time . . . 

Why are you sand,

So much infinite in everywhere 

But always slipping through my fingers. . .? 

Life . . .  

Why are you a politician,

So fill on your majestic promises

Yet leaving behind broken things and people. . ..? 

Love . . . 

Why are you a rose,

So engraved with thorns 

But so blessed with soft beautiful petals . . .? 

Wisdom . . . 

Why you are a paradox,

So needed and desired

Yet always hated then abandoned . . .? 

Wonder . . . 

Why are you a child,

So full of joy and awe 

But constantly, always, so fragile . . .? 

Death . . . 

Why are a dream,

So full of dread and fear,

Yet so yearned for. 

Chained Girl

I'm just a chained girl

Who lives in a perfect indoctrinate life,

Limbs constantly dragged to the beat 

Of a performance that can’t see me.

I’m just a chained girl

Who can no longer feel—or believe in—

Her wings under the cold web of chains. 

I’m just a chained girl 

Whose mind and heart continue 

To dream of the freedom and happiness

That comes from being and loving myself.

I’m just a chained girl

Who can longer be satisfied with dreaming happiness

And now fights back against the chains 

That froze her wings since she was a babe.

I’m flying girl now,

My wings, scared and bruised,

Carrying me to my dreams and happiness

That are mine and mine alone.

Human-Humanity-Hypocrisy

Choose all that apply before reading the rest of the poem below: 

{Disabled, Indigenous, Asian (East, South, Southeast), Latinx, African, Mixed, Poor, LGBTQA+ Female, Immigrant, First-Generation, Refugee, Any Religion} 

Why must a {insert here} 

Have to work so hard to prove their humanity they already have

To the powerfully parasitic privileged who is so eager to take it away

By any means necessary? 

Why must a member of that {insert} 

Have to spend their entire lives navigating though 

Trapdoors, puzzle rooms, walls, cages, chains, and laws

That only preserve the institutionalized inequality of the powerfully parasitic privileged 

While they promote hard work and determination would fix everything in their lives? 

Why must a member of {insert} 

Are forced to morph their personalities, their identities, their communities

Into the monstrous majority monotony society/status quo

Of the powerfully parasitic privileged  

That always condemn, criticize, scapegoat, stereotype, harass, assault, murder them

At every chance, at every crime, at every tragedy, at every minute of them trying to live? 

Why must a member of {insert},

After surviving through the oppression obstacles, 

Have to constantly inhumanly, impossibly, infinitely

Be perfectly good and civilized 

So their communities would eventually encounter 

Less torment from the powerfully parasitic privileged? 

Why does the {insert}

Be even more tormented after their minority-hero—

So chained and crucified to the ballet burden of role model—

Is discovered to have done something wrong, immoral, evil,

Therefore giving the powerfully parasitic privileged excuses to continue

Their discrimination, scapegoating, harassment, attacks, murder, dehumanization

Till the end of time? 

Why does the powerfully parasitic privileged 

Claim that only they have humanity in the world 

Even though their actions and words are synonym of humanity

Even though everyone on this earth

Like the said historically marginalized minorities 

Has humanity from the very second they are born?

Born a first-generation Mexican-Canadian-American autistic biromantic-demisexual with ADHD, Dana Trick lives in Southern California where it is clearly foolish to wear black any day. Besides writing, she spends/wastes her day by either reading weird books; researching history because she has a history degree; drawing art and comics that she posts on deviantART under Silencedbook9; and watching cartoons, anime, and Youtube videos. Her work has been published online--Art of Autism, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Kolkata Arts, The Writer Shed, The Writers Club, and The Ugly Writers—as well as in print anthologies: the 2018 Moorpark College Print Review; the Poets’ Choice Realm of Emotions; Other Worldly Women Press’ Behind Closed Doors; Free Spirit’s Historic Tales; Wingless Dreamer’s My Glorious Quill and The Book of Black; Dragoon Soul Press’ Organic Ink Volume 5; and The Ravens Quote Press’ Balm 2. She wishes the reader a nice day.