We wake with no words, just woe & wound.
Our own country shooting us in the back is not just brutality; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people & you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within.
Fear not those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both the pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.
We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world waiting, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity.
The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
—For Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Murdered by ICE January 24, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
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