Is all of this really happening right now? I struggle to feel as if time is real and outside is happening. Human senses are experiencing a shift. A global grief, a tense and raw, maybe even primal reaction to the threats happening around us. As the human species, I am more convinced that we are beings that feel on a visceral and subconscious level when there is an unsettling of ways of balance. When there is a forceful disruption to harmony that causes pain on a cellular level. I cannot remove the visions of scenes of raw pain and grief that we have seen because of social media giving us a visual lens into the ethnocide of the Indigenous people of Palestine. One nation who had a immense part of their own ethnic population decimated due to racist and ethnic hatred has repeated the history of their oppressors onto the Palestinian people. What an odd thing nations with power do. Destroy and dehumanize their subjects and plot to exterminate them. I have also been listening to th...
Sometimes when I want to be mad I just laugh Sometimes I just laugh When I need to be mad When everything says Now is NOT the Time But the Laugh chose me If I can't laugh I can't live Because Hell is outside Sitting across from your sidewalk, always watching To learn how to ask you out Or offer you a job Or be your parent Or that kid from (x) grade Laughter is survival. It is victory over that which would take you out. Shit, let me laugh.