The Eye of Justice

a poem/rosc of resistance

Prisoners stand in a sign of distress.
The Eye sees. Truth remembers.
Children die from a vanished disease.
The Eye sees. Truth remembers.
Billionaires toast their stolen prize.
The Eye sees. Truth remembers.
People freeze beneath roaring lies.
The Eye sees. Truth remembers.

Justice lives in our flesh.
Freedom lives in our blood.
Hope lives in our bones.
Memory lives in our breath.

We will not fall like the American chestnut.
We rise in defiance, wind-borne like dandelion seed.
We root in the cracks they forgot to seal.
We bloom in the ruins they tried to erase.

We are legion of leaf and thorn—
Soft, fierce, unyielding.

The Eye opens.
Truth burns lies.
We remember.
We endure.
We rise.