Urgency

Urgency By Luciana Fisher I write with an urgency unknown to man Insignificant as I am I write for every woman, man, and child never able to carry a pen, With the soul purpose Of righting all the wrongs That left them without a chance to leave in ink a mark of their own. With hope I write to inspire, Taking pleasure in every consonant and vowel Binding one to the next in a marriage Forming sounds A pleasure they have not known. To defy time I’ll leave behind in ink a mark of my own. A protest! A manifesto of a kind Give every woman, man, and child a pen, I demand! Let them think and write a story of their own! Let none go unknown. I write with urgency Good or bad I write with urgency Letting fleets of words meet With the complete notion that time is limited. So when I go, I leave behind in ink, not a life, but a collection of thoughts worth being known. Give every woman, man and child a pen, I demand! Let them write a poem of their own. And God, please, Let no writing go unknown.