Dancing Up The Storm

By Becca Lavin

Dancing Up The Storm

That has (had)            no

CLAIM

To OUR GRAND-SAFE

UNTOUCHABLE

ISLAND

Of LAWS

Now A-BREAK

CRUMBLING Before us

As BRITTLE as CHALK

Only DUST

In Its WAKE

A WASHING?                        AWAY

Of TRUTH?

 To a sewer-like DRAIN

CHOKING THE GILLS

Of HISTORY (& HERSTORY)

We THOUGHT we’d  put

To SHAME

WHAT?! HOW?! WHY?!

A  TSUNAMI                            OF

Unbridled  CORRUPT-ION

Unchecked  CRUELTY

AVARICE               

& PAIN

WHAT? ...NOW?..

We must                GATHER

TO GETHER

Make OF IT

THE  NECESSARY

 NOISE 

EXPOSE  our

RIGHTEOUS RAGE!

At THE STORM-

TROOPERS TRAMPLING

Over  TRUTHS     that

EACH & EVERY   ONE

Of us Has the RIGHT To

Whether  we / they

BELIEVE them

OR not...

DISTURBING

THE  DUST           OF

HATE / other

CRUELTY / Unchecked

LAWS / made to order (OR NOT)

CORRUPTION gone WILD!

And, so, JOYFULLY

Our RAGE ECOURAGES  US          TO

“DANCE UP! THE STORM!”

And SO WE DO

WE DO

Becca Lavin is a woman of a certain age (78) who turned to the written WORD in order to give her a voice she could listen to when, especially 'back in the days’, others may not have been able to.  A voice she could question and opine in the boldest, yet, most vulnerable of ways. Life saver, this. Now that she has wrestled her way forward and relaxed into a time of life when she should have most, if not all, her questions answered she has taken up the visual arts and thanks (?) to the crazy world of humans has more questions, such as WhatTF?! and WhenTF shall this too pass? Retired from a 20 year massage therapy practice, in 2020 she decided to try painting at her granddaughter’s requests.  Becca lives in Redmond, WA.