Four black Suburbans sat waiting
Stealthily, at dismissal
While four engines were running
In spite of the price of gas
While eight agents were sipping mocha lattes
Munching fresh croissants, bagels,
While ear buds were tuned to Opening Day,
They'll catch the game, then
Nab a mom, babysitter, lunch aide.....
While TSA agents drive by in Ubers
To put food on the table
While the lines grow at airports
Ticket prices increase by the hour,
While hikers are sent away from
Yosemite, Grand Canyon
While delis shutter their doors
As customers pray for another extension
While in Sacramento, gas nears $7
As bombs drop into the sea.
While we are distracted by Cuba, China
Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, China, Dubai,
While tariffs are tossed around like
Lysol after the flu hits home
While carrots, peanut butter, hamburgers
Become treats saved for birthdays
While our hearts are heavy and our
Minds are distracted by daily legal battles..
We have not forgotten
Thousands of unnamed souls warehoused in abandoned buildings,
Flown to foreign lands where they have disappeared
To live their days in punishment,
Reassigned to a country where they have never lived before
Away from children, spouses, jobs, courses, loves,
Forced to give up dreams of making the world a better place
Altering their future,
Those around the world w
Who hate us more than ever before
Those lost including Virginia, Renee, Jose, Tyler, Alex, Luis,
Geraldo, Victor, Heber, Noah, Cody, Nicole,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
17 comments:
Thanks for posting this. It is a powerful testament of our lives today.
All too real. Thank you for your bravery in telling it like it is.
This is very powerful and sad. Thank you for having the courage to write and post this.
It is so sad that our country has come to this. And still many refuse to see.
arjeha published the above comment.
Yes, please, publish! Thank you for taking the leap and sharing this, and keeping it at the front as powers that be attempt to fade it. We are on the right side of history, and there are more of us than them.
Thanks for posting. It is important to continue to share because this craziness has not stopped.
Perhaps not what you usually post, but very much needed. I appreciate these reminders, especially when I get so wrapped up in my small piece of the world it is easy to skip over headlines and stories.
Oh wow, love the structure here and the flippancy of the agents while the world spins off axis for those of us not in Suburbans. You have a masterpiece here, a real slice of reality and truth.
Diane (newtreemom)
So thoughtfully written. I’m very glad you did publish this. It is so important to keep remembering the names as you did.
Your message is powerful. It needs to be written. It needs to be spoken. We cannot look away, like some continue to do. In our voices, there is power....we cannot give up. Thank you for this reminder, Anita. Giovanna
Yes, a lot is happening all around us, and it's very hard to process the ways that our situation has changed in the past year. We will always have problems that we need to address, but it is really hard when it feels like we (our government) is creating so many more problems both here and outside our borders. There's a lot of darkness for us to overcome. I do have faith that we can turn things around, but there will still be a lot of damage for us to deal with.
~humbleswede
Saturday...it may not change anything but not being at a march is a sign of complicity. I will not stay home (and while rain will fall here...bombs are falling on others).
This captures all of my darkest fears, worries, and sadness. I'm glad you shared this story and wish it could be published in every newspaper across the country to be read by all. I guess now it's social media not newspapers.
Anita,
There is not a day that goes by w/ out a new low. I’m so disgusted by our government, including democrats like Cory Booker out hocking his f-ing book. They make me sick. Today that orange puss said he doesn’t care about gas prices and wanted to know about the statue of him going up in Venezuela. Then I saw news that his scrawling signature will be put on the dollar bill ostensibly to celebrate the 250th birthday of this country. It never ends.
I too remain hopeful, but some weeks are hard.
I am trying to remain hopeful but some days it is very hard.
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