Awaken the dawn

Awaken the Dawn 

By Jessica Singleton 

I was never given my own right.

Like lambs for the slaughter.

You have everyone else's blood on 

your mind- while you speak on their behalf.

Does it pain you to awaken the dawn of night? Do you play with the shadows of the lost souls that you martyered ?

Because you have spinning wheels running 

behind your lies.

You never owned me.

That is no ones right 

to have and hold.

I am not a gear shift. 

Civil liberties 

By

Jessica Singleton 

It's written in stone and blood 

You will never be able to lie 

again.

The truth echoes.

And you are only on display. 

Held so delicately on bended knee.

This vindicated mirror is not your alter.

You have no forgiveness here.

Only debt and truth.

No child will cry you to sleep again.

I will never have to be punished for 

anyone else's insanity again.

I'm free.