Together Alone

Solidarity,

You say you want solidarity,

But your polarity pushes us further apart.

True meaning is stretched thin across the field you forcefully try to wield,

Yet still you are magnetic,

Unapologetic and we can’t get enough of your rhetoric.

Heretics have a way of making a hero out of someone that should never be placed on a pedestal or overpriced soap box,

Zealots keep redrawing the lines of what society defines as good or decent,

In a recent turns of events,

Lobbyists refuse to kill bills that prevent progress,

Sequestering those of certain groups to live a life less public,

“If we don’t see them we don’t have to acknowledge that they exist,

These unicorns should be kept in rare form because what if this becomes the norm,

It simply boils down to us versus them and we will win because the majority has more say over the minority.”

On this we can ban together in order to protect the natural order.
When it comes to equal pay, equal rights, equal funding for education and resources,

It’s okay to disagree.

I see…
Some communities are left to fend for themselves,

Women should be punished for abortions,

If you’re gay you may or may not be provided service,

If you have to pee you can only do so under these conditions,

And Muslim communities must be policed…

If this is what solidarity looks like I’d rather be left to my own machinations,

To drink poison,

Bathe in poison,

Cook with poison,

Local government poisons,

Bodies and pockets,

While property value is watered down by,

Lead,

Bacteria,

Contaminants,

Calling CPS on parents refusing to pay the bills for something they can no longer use,

No one is confused!

Paint a working class town in shades of dire straits and it becomes a media focal point,
A hotbed for debate and donations,

Talks of change-corrosive as pipes flushed out with chlorine,
Yet once candidates leave,

Babes still brush their teeth, wash their faces, and drink one bottle of water at a time,

In a time where #blacklivesmatter, #alllivesmatter,

Political pressure misapplied still strikes a nerve,

We are still together yet so very alone.