Sister Samaria
I wish I could hug you
my arms
wrapped around your body
heart to heart.
Mother to mother.
There are no words.
Nothing that can ease the burden you now live with
Nothing can fill the emptiness in your household.
I’m so sorry.
Lord knows I am so sorry.
But those words are insufficient.
Living in a country
that can justify
the unjustifiable.
A court system that says no wrong was done
And yet you live without your son.
12 years old
And gone.
My heart weeps.
I wish I could hold you.
Mourn beside you.
Form a fence around you.
Burn shit down for you.
He was a boy
playing with a toy.
He didn’t have a chance
to comply.
And the fact that the entire nation
doesn’t rage
doesn’t grieve
doesn’t open their arms
doesn’t stand in solidarity with you
is a secondary crime.
The fact that your boy was denied
comfort in his last moments of life
another crime.
I wish I could hold you.
The whole damn system is guilty!
And Tamir
is gone
There is NOTHING justified about it.
NOT
ONE
THING.
Mother to Mother
I wish I could hold you.
I’m thinking of you
lending you all of the love and light in my heart.
This Thursday when I sit down with my family
I’ll be thinking of you and of yours.
I’ll be setting an extra place at the table
to remind us all.
We all we got.
It’s not enough
and everything
all at once.
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