Revolutionaries

Tear gas canisters and rubber bullets
are hurled at their direction,
yet they rise again and again,
like anthills cropping out from earth.
The rains normally beat them, but keep
on rising and rising from the ground…
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Dietrich Avatar
April 25, 2016 at 11:47 PM
sounds like you are describing days to soon come. Scary picture!
Kimathi Avatar
April 27, 2016 at 3:50 AM
I hope not....lolest!!! :-O
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