Create a Revolution

Incite change,
look for a patch
of difficulty amongst the glistening clouds,
hunt for a need unmet,
or a journey you want to take.

Stretch your arms to the sky's glow,
find peace within yourself
offer a donut to the homeless,
tap into the closet never opened

and pull down old journals
written before wrinkled foreheads
and children expanding like
spiders crafting their webs.

Sink your teeth into good books
write the author to share your enthusiasm
for their warm words
which make your heart twitch
and your muscles flex upon the seat
which holds the oldest bones

in your family all gone,
as you sit in your senior position
in the same way you were once the youngest
and most boisterous of the group.

Teach the world how life circles
and how change never really occurs
it just begs for a new sunlight.

Let yourself go
be the one who
they all talk about
when you are gone.

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By Diana Raab. Published in Bearing Witness: Poetry for Troubled Times by J. Polhemus & A. Abrams, Editors; Sligo Publishing, January 2026