Into the Mirror

This.

The truest test of faith
And it all comes down to
This.

With angst we fought for love
We thought
How could this be?
Thousands have died a million deaths
And today we sit in disbelief

Because the wars that were fought in schools
and in homes
and in streets
Were fought so that WE could be free

From hate
From racism
From inequality

And yet it has come to This.

I believe the question rising is:
Did we ever love our enemies
one bit?

We disagree and bicker
Point fingers and think
THEY are the ones who have caused our Land of the Free
to be a land saturated in malice, deceit and hypocrisy

Yet
It is not our place to blame
It is not our place to blame

We must look into the mirror
We must rise above the hate

By Tiffany Oliveira

Written the week of the November 8th 2016