No Longer

There have been times while watching life from the different places I have stood… that I have seen injustices….and have not acted as I should. Times I knew something wasn't right but still I stood by silently Times when I did nothing because those injustices were not done to me. Times when my silence was complicit…although I never could be blamed… Times that left me saddened…confused…distressed…regretful and ashamed… Leading to nights I could not sleep…because in my mind sad thoughts spun of all the things I should have said…of all the things I should have done. Perhaps I was surprised…bewildered…afraid…I cannot be exact… but for whatever reason I lacked the courage to speak up…and the bravery to act. But now that I am older…hopefully wiser…and more confident…I am inclined… to speak out when I see injustices…having left that younger me behind. No longer am I ashamed at my silence, my inability to act…instead… I am ashamed of our president, our vice president…and the party that they head. I am not ashamed to call myself an American…for that is who I will always be… but I am ashamed to be an American in the America they see. Their vision of America I will never join…in fact I shall publicly decry… To their hatred, abuse and indifference…never will I comply… I will continue to speak out against these injustices… no longer my feelings will I hide…. I'm not sure what good it will do but I will sleep a little easier… knowing I have tried