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A collection of poems focused on some of the more challenging realities of being human and living in a world of complexities from which none of us can escape. Breaking our hearts is part of the process of learning how to mend them. May this small collection help you do the sort of healing you need personally, and we need collectively.
Million’s Billions
Don’t you get it?
There is no happy medium,
no place where we all sit down
and talk about our troubles,
eager to find a solution for everyone.
There is no great court
where we can lay “it all” out there
to collectively assess the damage,
point to and pick up broken fragments
of what we once thought whole
and paste them back together
or smooth the smudges of weathered dreams
into some coherent whole.
There never was.
Reality is tricky like that.
It takes your perspective
and casts the world
in its own particular glow
everything seen and measured
from a vantage point
no one else can share.
It bleeds the world
of every other colour
leaving it decidedly your own
even if you’re trying very very hard
to see the breadth of the whole damned mess,
even if you’ve done everything you can
to try to understand it all.
You simply can’t.
But answer me this:
When was the last time “can’t”
was the last word for you?
When was “never”, or “not now”,
or “forget it” solution enough?
When was it last normal for you
to not look back on tragedy or the detritus of anger,
the bloodied remnants of prejudice,
the disaster of hate?
When was it last you turned and walked away uncaring?
We have our world before us,
its wounds of hatred seep;
anger’s fist is clenched and poised for action.
Fear has won.
Yes, it has.
As it has done a million million times before.
And as a billion billion times now past,
we will arise, dress the wounds,
search out the hidden fractures
and work our evolutionary way toward
empathy, care, love, the greater understanding –
refusing “can’t”
as we have ever done before.
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