PERSISTENCE

Persistence

never not resist

isolation and comfort

must  be  overcome

searching hope within cloud of hopelessness

here I am living 
well

but if I raise my head up 
even a little, I see poverty, 
a little more shows 
environmental despair,

 
under these issues I see 
individual and corporate greed 

looming in the imminent future
fascism led by # 45

so I duck my head and feel the exhaustion of impotence.
a few deep breaths and 
I revive
give myself a pep talk -- one 
thing I know 
about myself 
I am persistent.
must do my part 
to resist. 

(As Joseph O'Neill has his narrator, 
a poet, proclaim,  ending 
my new favorite story:
'Pardon Edward Snowden'
December 12th issue New Yorker) 

"Silently and exultantly, he roared, Never give in. Never not resist."