This came to me in the middle of the night, woke me up and hounded me until I wrote it all down. It feels somehow necessary. I hope it will be a comfort.
Candlelight vigil outside a Trump rally
We are each of us
mourning: those who are inside
rallying, those who are outside
praying, those who remained
at home.
We have lost friends, family,
community; faith, heart,
hope; our footing, our bearings,
our minds.
We are all of us
afraid: of each other, of the future,
of more loss.
We are none of us
beyond reproach, beyond help,
beyond forgiveness.
Divided as we seem, we are one
in our grief,
in our fear,
in our need
for one another.
The Daily Compost 