Non-Person

I am now a pale ghost

according to the Party.

I've been blocked by Democrats

on Facebook by the hosts.

I offered a critique

of how I was treated

A constructive appraisal -

You'd think I'd havoc wreaked.

They allow G.O.P

who are boisterous and rude,

but I'm a Party member,

kept under lock and key.

They won't answer appeals

questioning their stand;

They're acing like I am dead;

The protest is concealed.

This isn't new to me:

 My invisibility.

I've always been hard to see

to the powers that be.

What they want is some peace

to assist the elections.

What they get is more turmoil

Because I'll speak my piece.

©2012 Cherie R. Boeneman

Stand Up and Fight

The Democrats, I guessed
were more human than the G.O.P.
That was my first mistake.
People who differ are still oppressed.

When you dare raise your voice
you are shut down rudely and censored.
You are blocked from websites
and though a member given no choice.

What they do is brutal:
Ostracize and shun and ridicule.
They 'll intimidate you
any way they can, fighting futile.

Or so they will assume.
The truth is different than that, my friend.
You CAN resist and fight back, 
quite effectively, not in back rooms.

So learn to organize
and use their own tactics against them.
Be ready for their push back 
but that means you have gotten a rise.

You're making progress then:
if they spend time and money on you,
it is a good bet you are.
So you  keep at it, time and again.

Make big noise publicly
and people will begin to notice.
That is the last thing they want.
Become savvy politically

I Dare To Dream

I dare to dream...
of a country where I am included,
where Aspies are not secluded;
where people who are different
are still in the current
and can achieve to their potential.

I dare to dream...
of a country where I can speak
of problems without your shriek,
where comments are received
not by the peeved;
not as tangential but essential. 

I dare to dream...
of a country where my ability is prized,
not to be ignored and despised;
where I have dignity and worth
instead of stigmatized as worse;
where I'm seen as consequential

Fight For Freedom

Freedom of expression
is our fundamental right,
protected by the First Amendment.
We should not have to fight
to keep our free speech untouched
but that's exactly whats proceeding.
Police visited me 
to tell me to start heeding
an order to remove online posts
with my Congressman's name.
Their order was not written
But from Washington D.C.it came.
I never made a threat
adverse to the official.
So there is no legal reason for
demands prejudicial.
Attacks on our basic rights
are increasing in their persistence
and in hostility;
demanding our resistance.
We must not be deterred from speaking
and must still raise our voice.
Every freedom we hold dear
has to be defended by our choice.
If we don't do it now
our liberty will be gone
because we didn't pay attention
when their laws were first drawn.
Now they must be resisted
with all our muster and all our might
A revolution comes
upon us during the night.
We must not ever make concessions.



©2012 Cherie R. Boeneman