Dear child
Don’t be
Consumed by fiction
Have we ever learned?
When will we reach over these walls
And grab hold of each other ?
Scale this pain,
“Hillary was a witch, the Antichrist.”
“Obama was not American and the Antichrist. And and and.”
If it’s not this
it’s something else
Look at us
What we swallow
What we sow
What we consume
Hillary was a woman
A human, flawed, yes…
Obama was a man, a black man…flawed, yes. But human.
Our record of self delusion and hypocrisy
Is terrifyingly sobering
But we can choose to change
I think about how many Americans have died…
I think about how many of us are sick
The hospitals are not allowing visitation again…
What will become of us?
What will history say of us?
That we bought the propaganda?
Or that we stood
And we faced ourselves
We said there is no room
For sexism
There is no room for racism
There is no place for hate
There is only room for growth
For all of us at the table
For all of us
The disenfranchised
The minority
The single parent
The middle class
Every one of us
Because we rise and we fall together
So child
Remember
It’s a job
Do not lose hope
The scientist
The journalist
The doctors
They are not spending decades
Trying to deceive you
Do not lose faith in your ability to make a difference in your community
Read
Study
Reach out
Make a difference
It only takes one…
How sad,
We were mad that she had to carry so much only after RBG passed away…before she died, we were saying things like “she better hang on. We need her.”
How sad that Obama has to get back in the fight.
But look, it only takes one
If you think you don’t make a difference
Look again.
You matter
You’re important
Reach across those walls
We are more than our differences
We rise and fall together.
And our future is waiting
