An Invite
Heath Brougher is from York, PA and is Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press as well as poetry editor for Into the Void Magazine, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Magazine. He helped edit the anthology "We Are Antifa" which was a response to the murder of George Floyd and which donated 100% of its profits to Black Lives Matter--so far earning more than $3,000 for the cause.
By Heath Brougher
I am on one side of a canyon
and you are on the other.
There is a bridge between us
yet we remain inert, never taking
a step toward the other. Certain socially
rendered constructs have invaded
our Souls and taught us only to run
with a specific herd. I say the time
is nigh to cast off these antiquated shackles
and free ourselves by taking a step forward.
I say we cross the boundaries unexplored
and meet in the middle of the untrodden bridge
where we will laugh and dance and sing
songs of the sincerity of purest humanity!
I say we spark a revolution of compassion and empathy
among the individual's ultimate freedom
from the confines superimposed by society
and rip the realest righteousness straight from our sparkling Selves.