here i
go
again
caught in the
middle
with you
trapped here
between
just
between
caught in the
middle
middle
middle
man
the middleman
of
stagnation
the go-between
of
never
change
never
grow
never
challenge
lost here
in the fog
of
almost
and
maybe
and
that’s too far
here
hear the cry
of
the moderate
"save
the
status
quo"
Today I sit with myself, uncomfortably and awkwardly, as I face myself – and my own implicit bias towards a status quo. I am comfortable here – the world does not disown me, or hate me, or turn it’s back from me. I am safe here.
And, you are not – you who are other, different, more-than-human, or simply more. You deserve more and better than this, this deeply white, deeply hetero, deeply capitalist now – this status quo.
Today I begin to unwind a lifetime of sitting with the way things are – too comfortable to make them the way things should be.