to knowing a problem

to all the fried fish, and the fresh ones.

to the ones who take the bait.

to the hooks, lines, and sinkers taken

to the pain.

to honesty above honor and expectations.

to fear death as if it may ever be divorced from life.

to the embrace of an enemy's grasp.

to the need for an escape.

to saying things with clear language and to all the witches who died in Massachusetts.

to protect our youth from gun violence.

to having uncomfortable conversations and active listening.

to noticing the subtle things and sometimes what is missing.

to the little mysteries, the big ones, the ones we don’t know to wonder,

to the ones we will never know answers for.

to my love for him.

to all the eyes blinded by fear and gold and to the undercover canids in wool uniforms.

to the good fight and saying it loudly for the moon to hear.

to putting our differences aside.

to being antisocial and avoidant and still craving human contact.

to saying more than i should and candor.

to just another part of the same cycle.

to the power of denial.

to my dark muse, my black mirror, and my karma.

to all the roads that show you the world.

to the embarrassment of being gullible.

to let them have their opinions and their problems with all of them.

to the ones who know, and the ones you shouldn’t tell.

to sex-positive rhetoric, even if you want something else

to having consent and to when it gets requested.

to knowing that i am not broken because i don’t trust him.

to knowing i would trust him if i do feel broken.

to manifest my destiny without colonizing and to taking "no" for an answer.

to the talkers, the walkers, the resistance, and the reward of good faith.

to trusting the process and respecting my influence, and to externally observable facts.

to the impact.

to the effortless.

to both-ends-of-the-candle burners, the ones who live in the dark, and the ones who thrive throughout the spectrum.

to the extremes and to a gentle compromise,

to standing on the business of civility.

to healing and the addiction of economics.

to knowing a problem before naming him it.

to the scapegoats, the underdogs, and the black sheep.

to Chiron and Lilith

to logically understand emotions.

to the empaths who share the world’s magnitude for one and all.

to fixing your own life

to knowing the difference between good and evil, between better and worse, and any comparison, is that the lot go nowhere and lack the profound continuum of the Way that can’t be given.