LIVING MATTER
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see.
it could be simple
oh so simple
or more simple
if we could see our similarities
our connected-ness
this is why Black Lives Matter
this is why ‘no’ means NO!
this is why women’s rights are still important
this is why the rights of the queer community are important
this is why the ppl that media sells as “savages” are important
you get sold one lie
you begin to buy them all.
we can’t cycle hate
& expect less homicides
more peace
more love.
if some of us aren’t safe
none of us are safe.
if we can’t love one group of people
we cannot pick & choose the next group of people that we choose
to give a damn about
if we decide to feel
and we decide not to feel.
“that’s, them”.
if some of us are being restricted /targeted / denied our civil rights &/or liberties
it becomes all of us / at some point / being restricted / targeted / denied our civil rights &/ or liberties
this is a human issue
humans have a right to live
humans have a right to live
humans have rights
and this ain’t living
in fear
this ain’t living.
regardless of everything under the setting Sun
when we reach a point in our societies where we as a humanity
make decisions to take lives that we didn’t give
and find justification for murder
based on “systems”
we need a major reconstruction
beginning w our elite
it could be simple
yet it is not
hate is now a religion
love is not.
we’re probably just going to change our profile pic into special colors
light candles
& pray
or self-medicate
it’s what we do best
so that we do nothing at all
and feel justified in our apathy
because we haven’t finished grieving
the last event that was worth our specific grief
events that steal souls.
we are the districts.
it’d be safe to say
we are not given proper time to grieve
any longer.
this is how you desensitize a people
this is how one evoke a war
cycle trauma after trauma
find justification in every death
don’t prosecute the people that are clearly committing crimes
make the victims deserve their bullets
again
because they should have been this way / or that / here / or there
they are their own fault
they were murdered
create civil unrest.
if one of us is murdered / we are not livid / intentionally indignant / mourning life. body. soul. spirit. energy. & aura.
another of us is murdered / & you are livid / intentionally indignant / mourning life. body. soul. spirit. energy. & aura.
you have shown your own teeth
all humans don’t have the same rights
in your heart of hearts.
this is a human rights issue
humans are born
they deserve to live
see.
it could be simple
no fabricated category makes one less human
being another species makes one less human.
simple.
see.
we’re all living matter.
that’s it.
it could be simple.
it is that simple.
