How many times
is it again
that one
promises
something
that it becomes
more than law
it becomes
divinely
decreed?
first time
following the father's
footsteps
the sock and buskin
two step
back
into
the
middle
of where
we did not belong
the second
sliding and scraping
sideways
up against
a cutting
collegial
fraction
and
the
people's
plebiscite
the third
an ambush
of prodigious
proportions
Hate on display
riots on demand
body sovereignty
abolished
PTSD
persists
to this day
this fragile day
some say the word
was written
it is three
Not
to deny
knowing
doing
what was said
promised
but
to be
strengthened
fortified
exacted
I fear
my
hand
will
be
forced
so I cry
out
"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"
Vive la France
2025
Camp NaNoWriMo Day 14
*La Marseillaise - French National Anthem
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