This is a call to action, a cry, a plea
for voices unheard, ignored and in need
a city of shining lights, skyscrapers and prosperity
has now become a symbol of economic disparity.
(Politician Talk)
The dream we call Toronto, is an economic success
you can go from rags to riches, if you try your best
who said fatherlessness, crime and poverty [...]
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnation that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the [...]
Murmurs quietly seep through the still, suffocating heat of a tropical night
overwhelming the images of savagery and distant machine gun fire
a land where the lush earth is painted red with blood
the scent of death infused with the sweetness of flowers and palm trees
the child’s laugh replaced by his mother’s cries.
A generation of lost souls, unnamed [...]
Right, comrade, it’s the hour of the garden
and the hour up in arms, each day
follows from flower or blood:
our time surrenders us to [...]
