#I am incandescent with rage for these atrocities and a strangely gleeful desire to bleed in another’s stead.

[badolmen]

When I say “take heart and have hope” I don’t mean you should collapse to your knees with a demure plea to the heavens. You aren’t a painting of a tearful Saint long ascended. You are a Saint living now. Pick up the sword of Joan, the shield of George. Charge into the fires of hell unflinching, as you are already burning in your conviction that these crimes against the innocent and oppressed and poor will not go unheard or unseen or unpunished. By your hand or another’s there will be justice in this life or the next. Get off your knees and stand shoulder to shoulder with your brothers and sisters, lest you drown in the tide of despair.

Take heart and have hope.

#ra speaks #personal #poetry #kind of? sorry I get worried I come off as very ‘oh this is so tragic and sad :( oh well’ and that’s so far from the truth #I am incandescent with rage for these atrocities and a strangely gleeful desire to bleed in another’s stead. #being physically disabled and unable to do anything but speak and talk and share my solidarity is so infuriating #when I have the desire and calling to have my boots on the ground and hands helping the injured and frightened and fighting #it’s actually a little bizarre how strongly I feel about this I’ve never had this urge to get up and go rushing into danger before #anyways. #take heart and have hope #vocational woes