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NO LONGER
There have been times while watching life from the different places I have stood…
that I have seen injustices….and have not acted as I should.
Times I knew something wasn’t right but still I stood by silently
Times when I did nothing because those injustices were not done to me.
Times when my silence was complicit…although I never could be blamed…
Times that left me saddened…confused…distressed…regretful and ashamed…
Leading to nights I could not sleep…because in my mind sad thoughts spun
of all the things I should have said…of all the things I should have done.
Perhaps I was surprised…bewildered…afraid…I cannot be exact…
but for whatever reason I lacked the courage to speak up…and the bravery to act.
But now that I am older…hopefully wiser…and more confident…I am inclined…
to speak out when I see injustices…having left that younger me behind.
No longer am I ashamed at my silence, my inability to act…instead…
I am ashamed of our president, our vice president…and the party that they head.
I am not ashamed to call myself an American…for that is who I will always be…
but I am ashamed to be an American in the America they see.
Their vision of America I will never join…in fact I shall publicly decry…
To their hatred, abuse and indifference…never will I comply…
I will continue to speak out against these injustices…
no longer my feelings will I hide….
I’m not sure what good it will do
but I will sleep a little easier…
knowing I have tried
