Broken. Terrified. Baffled. Devastated. How can I convey Everything I’m feeling inside My rights. My future. I can see it all crumbling Blowing away like dust in the wind As an orange man laughs But it’s not funny Why is empathy So hard to comprehend? Why is it so impossible To take off your shoes And step into mine For just 5 minutes The tears. The cries. The agony. The anguish. You turn your back on all of it Because it could never effect you None of it matters to you Until it does. Until it’s your mom. Your sister. Your aunt. Your cousin. Your best friend. And you realize They have no rights And you voted To make sure they had none. How long Will you be able to look yourself in the mirror And feel good about what you’ve done The reality is Plenty of people Will not make it through this I cannot even begin to tell you How many people will suffer Always taking from those with the most to lose It disturbs me to know That I live amongst so many people That don’t believe I deserve my rights. The right to control my own body. The right to be allowed to vote. The right to marry the gender that I want. The right to marry the race that I want. The right to be able to divorce if I want. The right to decide if I want children or not. Suddenly, I am not trusted with myself Yet, I am the only person Who has been with me Every single moment of this life Every single minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year I am the only one Who gets to decide my future Because I know my past Fuck anyone and everyone who believes otherwise.