fuck that
there is a way

i have said
i am tired
but really just fed up
with an overtaxed
sympathetic nervous system

holding all the negative energy
of our collective trauma

conversations have finally started to change
and this is allowing me to
grab this moment
and put words together
in ways i have never been able to until now

i have felt like i have been writing
the same lines
the same pain
for so fucking long

trying to find a voice
that has been shut down
and shut out of the most important of conversations

a healing is happening
voices are coming out

the reality that my pain
is your pain
is our pain
is finally emerging

the truth of a culture
so far in denial
of its disregard
and indifference to other

is becoming more obvious

me too, you too

for so many now
it has become
us too