Crisis

How did undocumented –
a civil infraction –
reduce people to ‘bodies’?

And how did empathy –
observation and support –
merit death by gunshot?

When we stretch for explanations –
to fit the violent rhetoric –
are we too not complicit in crime?

Red, blue, it’s all intolerable –
the global stage is watching –
a nation in rapid decline.

“He’ll burn it all down,”
we’d been warned –
prophetic at that.

The terror escalates,
the system no longer works,
people are uprising to stunned silence

Where is the hand of justice,
governance for and of the people,
a nation for all….gone?

Greed drives this destructive machine.
Cut off the source of fuel, methinks –
if power is to act out empathy.

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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    1. I wish I had an answer. People uniting and being steadfast in their resistance seems to be the best ploy. As much as possible stopping the money flow to those who support the madness .

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  6. It has been very difficult to accept what the US has become. The explanation for much of what is happening is sadism, enjoying seeing people suffer. That’s in addition to money and power, of course. We’re in a world of hurt. We’re living in a fascist state, and how are we supposed to do that?

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