July 08, 2023 – C

I've written recently about the importance
of our own confession/repentance/atonement,
and there is another aspect of our sensitivity
to wrong that begs to be mentioned.

We are to bear witness of other people's refusal
to be truthful
and their failure to be good.

I'm speaking of the fascists among us.
The members of Congress,
the would-be-wanna-be next President of the United States,
the members of the Supreme Court,
the wealthy backers of Wrong Forever On The Throne,
the people who chant the slogans of the fascists,
who, themselves, are fascist to the core,
hating those who are different from their idea
of how people ought to be like them
so that the world would then be a safe place
for them to be.

We bear witness to them all
and attest to their rancid souls
and their careless way with words and deeds,
spewing their wrath and their spite,
their malice and their malignancy
unto all who are not like them,
and living to make them pay dearly for daring
to be as they are,
people of color, immigrants, destitute, homeless, gay,
female, disabled, with nothing in common
with the fascist supremacists except all of the things
that make us human 
and cry out to be honored and revered by us all. 

We bear witness to their rejection of our common duty
to be simply human to one another.

We see.
We hear.
We know who they are.
And we will not forget
or allow it to go unacknowledged.

–0–