Women's March Revisited

we marched

in a small town in rural Germany

we marched

we mazed 

our bodies through the labyrinthine remains of an old cement factory

four of us, together

venting fury and despair

throwing rocks

breaking glass

kicking formless metal objects

burning wood

cracking concrete

dancing atop rubble

protest music on a portable speaker

we came together to mourn

(the sadness in my bones wreaks them of strength as I collapse on the floor to stare blankly out the window into the grey-white winter sky

stay

stare)

we came together to fight

(terror spasms through me as I watch the Inauguration, certain that I hear him announce the end of democracy and the start of authoritarian rule with him as the big, red -faced rule-maker / rule-breaker)

we came together to do something

a symbolic gesture perhaps

done for our own sense of self-satisfaction

but what better reason is there than this, a sense of satisfaction in ourselves

that

we can come together

and we can do

anything

and everything

that has been done 

so that I can believe that 

is why I march

today