Headlines depress love, thyself, and thy neighbor
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Because
I can’t get out
from
under
this it’s so heavy
feeling
of
I am not
enough
I am not
enough
I am not
enough
I am not—
enough is enough
we can shift reality
we will transform ourselves
& the entire history of coloniality
that weighs
down upon us
one binary
relationship
at a time:
“me vs. you”
“us vs. them”
“his vs. hers”
“ours vs. theirs”
“this vs. that”
—for it is not us to be this
bloody system
blood-filled system
blood thirsty system
blood floods, our lives, into the system
of clockwork operators
& we are not even mere cogs
within the system;
it’s why
my soul
longs
for release out into the beyond—a field where we are
no longer in
wrong doing
or
right doing
but just doing what comes not-so
easily to the skin—
loving
thy neighbor as thyself.
But then I
do not even love
myself,
so
what then
of my neighbor?