Featured Editor's Choice for February 2025 SILENCED AGAINST OUR WILL Why be insensitive
to those who are poor
yet intelligent?

Share their thoughts,
stories and views
to inspire

Be a leader not a follower
not to condemn others
of their race

Why be prejudice
to those who were born
with a fertile mind?

We live on the same planet
earth, wreaking havoc
fighting among ourselves

Covering up the truth
let the government control
what to teach the next generation

Why let such stupidity
govern our country and society
to be overruled? We can't move forward
If we don't have any freedom
of speech

Be locked behind bars in jail
because our justice system
failed us

What kind of life do we want
to have now and years to
come?

Be scared, intimidated, chained
without any warning or reason
going insane.

A dangerous predicament to
foretell ahead what may happen
Because we are silenced against
our own will. © Gloria Magallanes-Loeb
U.S. Gloria Magallanes-Loeb is an author and poet. She has lived in San Francisco (USA), for over 30+years. She is married and has one grown son. Her married name is pronounced like (lobe). She studied Bachelor of Commerce and majored in Business Management. Gloria started writing in grade school but it was in high school, her poems were published in the school paper, Tolentine Star. She is a member of various international poetry groups. Along with her published book, 'NATURE: The Moon, The Sun, Flowers and Feelings', published by McKinley Publishing Hub (MPH), she is also a contributor of 14 book anthologies, 'Saving One Poem at a Time', 'ColoveOration', 'Rainbows and Daydreams', 'The Art of Poetry', 'The 5th World Book of Gogyoshi', to name a few. She is also a Lifetime Achievement awardee given by the founder of GWWC and the Poetic Gold Flame Ink Society. Gloria participated in an Open Mic with other poets, reciting poems live through Zoom by Annette Tarpley, Founder of Passion of Poetry (POP Facebook group).