allow the deepest pain
dignity
and find its place

when misidentified shame
masquerading as cleverness
takes control of the fear
piercing all hearts
from behind

when grievance guides
the unquenchable thirst
for justice
rumbling like thunder
into an indifferent world
of transactional
hierarchy

when all sense and sensibility
is inevitably overwhelmed
by the brutal cacophony
of desperate souls
clamoring for scraps

when the greatest force in the universe
reduce to a visceral act
of the most banal
is weaponized

it is difficult

m(___)m