I'm old enough to remember how the world would stop when a white woman would disappear or be murdered. The news cycle would show their face all day, every day. How talking heads would jump on cases like these and point out the failings of the 'system', how it doesn't protect women. How it was lacking in awareness for situations such as these.
Now I see that it was only the disease. Moving through the system to co-opt what it needed in order to further project itself deeper into the small fissures of flaw that exist inside, oxidizing like a rust to break down the armor of what it once sought to protect. After weaving its way inside our homes and now finally perverting our children, murdering them with foreign hands, this disease leaves in it's waste the rusted body of one more of our children. Then afterwards, calously, moving on to chew up and spit out another... until we are gone... Or we are done.
Done with this disease. Switching on. Turning ourselves into the cure. The hot fever. The cleansing purge that heals a body and repairs the mind.
I am old enough to remember and now I am old enough to see.
Amen. As a new father to 5 month old twin girls, I cannot begin to imagine the pain that these people feel. Having done such a good job raising a decent person and having her snuffed out in such a way. By an animal with no remorse for what he did. No regard for the beautiful life that he took. "It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to. For people like me. For people like you. Wish I could just wake up and it not be true. But it is. Oh, it is."
I'm old enough to remember how the world would stop when a white woman would disappear or be murdered. The news cycle would show their face all day, every day. How talking heads would jump on cases like these and point out the failings of the 'system', how it doesn't protect women. How it was lacking in awareness for situations such as these.
Now I see that it was only the disease. Moving through the system to co-opt what it needed in order to further project itself deeper into the small fissures of flaw that exist inside, oxidizing like a rust to break down the armor of what it once sought to protect. After weaving its way inside our homes and now finally perverting our children, murdering them with foreign hands, this disease leaves in it's waste the rusted body of one more of our children. Then afterwards, calously, moving on to chew up and spit out another... until we are gone... Or we are done.
Done with this disease. Switching on. Turning ourselves into the cure. The hot fever. The cleansing purge that heals a body and repairs the mind.
I am old enough to remember and now I am old enough to see.
Amen. As a new father to 5 month old twin girls, I cannot begin to imagine the pain that these people feel. Having done such a good job raising a decent person and having her snuffed out in such a way. By an animal with no remorse for what he did. No regard for the beautiful life that he took. "It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to. For people like me. For people like you. Wish I could just wake up and it not be true. But it is. Oh, it is."
So well said.
Your closing line, brought me to tears.