You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone

If you still haven’t found your sea legs in this new reality

                                                                    You are not alone

If you check your privilege while wondering how

                                                                    You are not alone

If your empathy is worn down by 3pm each day

                                                                    You are not alone

If you’re terrified by normalizing this but desire stabilization

                                                                    You are not alone

If you haven’t figured out how to talk to your family about this new reality

                                                                    You are not alone

If you want to post something flippant to social media and feel guilty about it not being political enough

                                                                    You are not alone

If you can’t figure out how to talk about this morning’s tragedy and by the time you do everyone else is raging about the next thing

                                                                    You are not alone

If you are often paralyzed and enraged by your own paralysis

                                                                    You are not alone

If you wish you could go back to the good old days of 2015

                                                                    You are not alone

If you loathe being so lazy

                                                                    You are not alone

If you still have no idea how to be authentic and be part of the resistance

                                                                    You are not alone

If you are super resistant to having your emotions manipulated on an hourly basis

                                                                    You are not alone

If you self-medicate through TV shows with strong lead females

                                                                    You are not alone

If you hide inside books that have nothing to do with the present era

                                                                    You are not alone

If you truly question the possibility that this is the apocalypse

                                                                    You are not alone

If you long to escape and long to engage in the same moment

                                                                    You are not alone

If you wish you were as ignorant as your own housecat about the state of things

                                                                    You are not alone

If you fear saying these things will invoke the privilege police

                                                                    You are not alone

If you fear saying anything will trigger a Tweet storm

                                                                    You are not alone

If you fear Tweet storms will bring about the next world war

                                                                    You are not alone

If you fear big thumbs on small hands will literally Tweet away everything that is good about the world

                                                                    You are not alone

If your amygdala was hijacked along with your hope

                                                                    You are not alone

If you refuse to give up hope

                                                                    You are not alone

If deep down you hope it will all work out even when it seems nothing can

                                                                    You are not alone

If deep down you love stories that end with love destroying hate

                                                                    You are not alone

If deep down you refuse to be destroyed by hate

                                                                    You are not alone

If you wonder if there’s a place for you at all in this unwelcoming world

                                                                    You are not alone

If you wonder for a moment if you are the only one remember this irreversible truth:

                                                                    You Are Not Alone.