In two directions, always
The tension pulls

Everyone thinks in absolutes these days
A fuse waiting to go off
Waiting to explode
Waiting to ruin relationships
Families

What people don’t see are the individuals
The smaller stories that explain so much
Revealing other views
Stories of people
Real people
Trying to live their lives
Trying to survive in a land where the sky bleeds red
Trying to find any means of safety, trying to protect it

How do you find a new home when all of the planet is occupied
And nobody cares to take you in
What do you do when you are forced from your ancestral lands
Along with thousands more of your people

Reasons are different from justifications
There is no justification for violence

But there are reasons
Heartbreaking reasons
Reasons to run, reasons to fight
Reasons to dance, reasons to love

The moral compass inside us cries
Remember
Remember to love
Remember to hope
Remember the reason you are here
Remember that the reason is
To love, not to hate

Finding the togetherness in times of lost humanity
Is the only way to live