Poem: Like Hollow Echoes

LIKE HOLLOW ECHOES

Finding my way thru the darkness

A headlong rush to the precipice

Desperately seeking the switch

To throw light upon their graves

Finding meaning in Trans martyrdom

A lie people dont want to see

The moral power of resistance

Engenders their hatred more

This is the fire within me

Ripping away the blinders

Of the privilege they bestow

Upon the hearth of viciousness

And the violence that enslaves us

Where is the decency of the machine

That claims to drive us all

The violation of those tenants

The lessons Stonewall claimed

Yet lost to our generation

Like hollow echoes faded into nothingness.

And I ask you, must I stand alone?

Mikayla Cadger