you can board a ship
and find me on an ocean
you can be found in my place
causing a revelatory commotion

institutions only exist
so that they can reinforce their influence
and they only exist to reinforce their power
never has it been about equality

i shot an arrow –
which pierced a dream
just as i built a rope swing
that hung from an oak beam

there is no discussion
only medieval pageantry and trumpets
on this forced succession

we have navigated –
such strange events
situations of hardship
people well meant