With Pen In Mind

Picking up the pen,
With which I've written time and time again,
Filling in the page
With love and rage.
No one understands.
Everyone just makes demands.
Still, each day get up, engage.
At times I wonder when the fighting ends.
No one ever told me
What the fight is for.
All I know is that I must defend
Until I ascend.

Richard C. Hayner
1982 ©

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