There has been a lot of anxiety leading up to today. I hope that at the very least you VOTE.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

My boyfriend checked in on me. He’s really good at that. He asked if I was nervous. I am but also… I did my part. The anticipation is there though.

I’m old enough now to know we will figure it out… all of it… as it comes. Each of us. Remember your decisions and your choices don’t end with the vote. We will always be striving for something and I know my efforts will be for more peace and care.

Unrest

Steps heavy with

Steel toed boots

Torches

Replace keystrokes

Wooden stakes

Are being carved

Into words

Skewering wisdom

Turning logic

Into a slow

Trickling stream

Of overdosed panic

Of invisible blood

Flowing sticky

And thick

Poisoning the mud

We wash all

Our sins into