A sleepless night next to a child with a 102 fever
The fever not breaking
The child mumbling delirious in her sleep
Waking up like nothing has happened
as the east coast wakes up to a
day after where climate change sits heavy on some lips
and some try not to see the water still rising and the
wind still raging and the chaos still coming
and someone wants to do a way with FEMA
and their voters don’t realize what they mean
I refuse to think Republicans would vote to hurt people
I’m hoping they just don’t know like in
forgive me father they know not what they do
but can we forgive when it puts our lives at stake?
and in the Sierras, the cops must have a grant
to rip plants out the ground
but they turn a blind eye to women
ripped away from children
What am i scared about today?
Not the way they follow our cars
Not the way that winter is coming on
Not the way that I haven’t seen you alone in weeks
But the uncertainty
the uncertainty.