What happened to tenderness

Bombarded by images of suffering and violence

Called to witness but so painful to watch

How does my oversized heart survive this time of cruelty and strife? 

Needing to encase it in cold armor after it's cracked open wider every day

By sadness 

By loss 

By fear 

But also by glimmers of compassion 

Sparks of irrefutable joy

That makes it even harder to know

How to manage and get through the day

Knowing we are alive during a time of great peril

But also that we are filled with the capacity to care for each other deeply

Just send your little emails and work on documents no one will read

To pass the time and distract you from the fact that you're a light worker 

A speck of heavenly stardust

Trying to shed light and spread joy 

In a world where most don't deserve it

But there is a time coming 

Soon

Where you won't have to choose between knowing and protecting

We need the light right now


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