Children of the Storm #2
Ann Christine Tabaka
There is a storm inside each of us,
it’s been brewing from the start.
It grows stronger with each step forward we take.
We march across a barren landscape.
We shield our eyes from blinding light.
There is no sin so great as those of our own making.
Many trials confront us - but we fight on.
A future that does not belong to us
is handed down from the past.
We will never surrender.
We will not be beaten down.
Together we become a hurricane.
It is the storm of freedom.
It is the storm of truth.
We are children of the everlasting storm.
Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry; nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year. Her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers” 2020 and 2021.