How?

I am not sure how to metabolize the state our country is in right now.

How to witness people being murdered and treated inhumanely.

To witness a singular group’s values being forced onto an entire country.

To see speaking up treated as a crime.

To think about how scared so many people must be just to leave their homes.

To go to work.

To try to live a life while knowing it isn’t safe for them here.

My heart wishes there were an easy way to stop this.

My mind wonders why so much hate exists.

How people are not only okay with witnessing this,

but are actively for it.

How can we be okay with other humans being treated this horrifically?

Part of me doesn’t want to think about how bad it’s going to get.

But another part of me knows that many people don’t have the privilege of not thinking about it,

because for them, it already is as bad as it gets.

And that breaks my heart.

And it enrages my soul.