Crying For Help from within an Invisible Cage

If this were urgent, and we were truly in danger

If this were our time to act, our responsibility well beyond interest,

How would I

Possibly

Let you

Know that?

What is the difference

Between thinking & knowing

Knowing & feeling

Feeling & interpreting

Interpreting & remembering

Remembering & foreseeing

Foreseeing & experiencing

??????

Y, tho?

People as like there’s only one answer and they already have it.

Is it good?

Is it useful?

Is it true?

Supposedly supposed to be basic human rights (but the state of things coulda fooled me):
-safety & security
-equal, respectful treatment
-one’s own thoughts, beliefs & feelings, allowed to differ from others
-advocate for own needs, as well those of loved ones
-to love or not as one wishes
-privacy & dignity
-to express oneself freely
-protect & defend from attack
-equal legal protection

y’know what has got to be the hardest part to live with?
it’s that we handed them the blueprints ourselves
and we’re giving them encouragement and feedback
everytime we reach or cry out for help.

here we were,
thinking we were sharing our stories
not thinking the harm doers would be turning our past pain into incipient plans
thinking the do gooders would do something
other than note what not to be seen doing

of course narcissists would get into psych studies
control that narrative, too
just like they dominated every study
every industry, every church, and rumor has it, every one

while the rest of us followed the leading advice
and just backed away silently,
ceding everything
not thinking beyond
our own sad survival
to isolation that would be
used as proof –
we were the trouble
we made others feel
with our stories

weren’t we kinda askin’ for it,
crying out
“Me Too”
like it was iced cream
and we wanted more