A way towards love is accountability

A poem

There is dissonance

in singing for freedom

and funding the detonation

of those seeking liberation.

There is dissonance

in our hearts that remember hope

but fear unguarded love

is an invitation for desolation.

We keep on saying

what we got to say:

weapons lead to war

and war guts the future

before we even get there.

We look back and see how

those that put sand

in the odious machine

gently and often full-bodied

were trying to salvage us

caring through correcting

finding what is right in what is just:

a way towards love is also accountability.