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Riot

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By KAT HuntPublished 4 years ago 1 min read

We're told we're free but I don't buy it

Raise your voice, it's time to riot!

Like those before us, we must use our voices

For our bodies, our autonomy, our choices

It's time to end this misogynistic tyranny

You have no right to legislate my body!

You have taken away our consent, essentially

Yet say not to worry because we're still free

How can I believe that when our protest is treated like background noise

And we're under control of the "good ol' boys"

Using arcane beliefs to define marriage, man, and woman

We've been sent back to the darkness and oppression

But we will recover, regroup, and rise

We WILL change the world before your biased eyes

With blood, sweat, passion, and pain

Our voices call out once again

It is the cry of those who will be silent no more

Remember, it was your choice to start a war

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About the Creator

KAT Hunt

I grew up in a small town in Oregon. In 2nd grade (circa 1984), I was entered into a poetry contest. I won 3rd place and was awarded a small check and a certificate signed by President George Bush Sr. I have been writing ever since.

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