What am I supposed to do?
I've called.
Protested.
Mailed.
Swore.
Prayed.
Shared.
Spoke truth.
Exhorted.
Cried.
Screamed.
Voted.
Posted.
Spoke.
Explained.
Tonight; do I sit by the clock
and count the minutes
before he commits genocide?
Watch the sky for retribution?
Look at the seeds waiting for warmer days
and apologize for the swooning
moment of optimism
that carried me through their purchase?
I think I need to
apologize
to the world.
Women have been apologizing
for the actions of violent angry men
since
forever.
Why stop now?
Why won't he just. stop. now?
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Comments (8)
Thank you so much HUGS💚 💚💚 💚💚 💚💚 💚
Take a breath. Take a pause. Take what you need to ride through the hopelessness and helplessness…whatever will replenish your will and energy to continue resisting. There can be no change without resistance. And no change without change. We need ALL forms of resistance - small, subversive acts. Big, overt acts. Everything in between. Identify your privilege and use it for good, for radical, for subversion, for change, for care. For love. For humanity. Sending strength from far away - and know there is solidarity in fear. In hope.
Someone needs to invoke the 25th amendment. Like yesterday! No wannabe Kings or Idiots should ever be allowed to hold the highest office. Feeling your pain.
Someone needs to off him
I feel the pain of the world. I ain't never gonna stop. One down, another rises.
You aren't alone.
So many are feeling this, my friend. Well wrought!
I feel the same!