STANDING ON A POWERKEG. That's my sense of us.

Recently I wrote a piece, REQUIEM, my requiem for the world I believed I lived in. A few days ago, I came to very different words. STANDING ON A POWERKEG. That’s very very different, by the way, from standing on a powderkeg. A powderkeg can blow up whoever is nearby. A powerkeg is fuel. It’s our own source of power.

I am including 2 versions, short, and slightly longer.

In the northern hemisphere, it’s springtime - growth. For many of you, it’s Easter - rebirth. Time for a fabulous powerkeg!

Here is it online, by the way:
https://elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/political-poem-power-keg.html

Standing on a powerkeg
     on dynamite    

Power surging in us
     on the rise
             sky high

Standing on both legs
     on a powerkeg

          not powderkeg
               dry 

The juice is flowing
     streaming 

I stand
     we stand
          on a powerkeg
          on a lift-off ledge
               
We stand on the powerkeg
     of fact

We are standing on a powerkeg
   a book of matches, of facts, in hand
           to set fire to
                 the paper-thin story
           to burn away 
                  their sorry story

We are holding the plug
   to plug into  
     the powerkeg
        of facts
   to blow sky high 
     their sorry excuse
          of a story, their lies

Elsa
March 15-28, 2024
© copyright Elsa Schieder, 2024, all rights reserved

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A LONGER VERSION

Standing on a powerkeg
     on dynamite

   their edifice
          ready to blow

               to go 

             to smithereens

Power surging for us

   our edifice

          on the rise

             sky high

 Standing on both legs
     on a powerkeg

          not powderkeg
               dry 

The juice is flowing
     streaming 

   you hold the plug

you’ve lit the sky

     time flies

          the tinderbox 
               implodes

you rise
     we rise 
 

I stand
     We stand
          on a powerkeg

I stand
     We stand
          on a lift-off ledge

               power!!!

We stand on the powerkeg
     of facts, truth

Standing on a powerkeg
    a match in hand
       a fact 
              to set fire to
                 the paper-thin story
              to burn away 
                  the sorry story

We are holding the plug
   to plug into  
     the powerkeg
        of fact
   to blow sky high 
     the sorry excuse
          of a story, the lie

Elsa
March 15-31, 2024
© copyright Elsa Schieder, 2024, all rights reserved

Posted March 31, 2024