The Utopian Truth

Utopia is rest.

Without the fear

of becoming subservient

Looming above like a curse

Rewinding history.

It was what the older generations

Have strived for.

In many variants of pain.

It always began as a journey through

The dreaded swamps–

Thick and waist deep.

Forests swallowing the lost into obscurity.

A moment through shallow waters

or clear pathways were scarce.

While the destructive world aimed

their vile glares.

After all the nightmarish turmoil

Sinking in their skin.

All our ancestors pleaded for was rest.

To gaze upon the land in pride.

To absorb what was deserved.

Lay underneath trees bared in ripened fruit.

Sleep afternoons away without the jolt of expectation.

Spend the waking days surrounded by family.

Every day will become a celebration of life.

No more hungering for bluer eyes

or accepting life sentences to drag

culture through a genocide

But dancing under sprinkled joy.

Utopia is free.

Without the weight

Of judgment becoming a prison

Feeding into reality.

Without fighting till the afterlife

calls their name.

by Rachel Barduhn

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