Adrift

I just don’t understand where I’m from any more
I don’t recognize the place I used to call home
Even looking through the lens of an adopted home
Dissent and all
All the way to dissident

But I’m now adrift
From what is a different kind of authoritarian nightmare

One that removed the right to silence in the name crime and punishment
One that broke from Europe in the name of an empire of old
One that watches every street corner in the name of public safety
One that suppresses free speech in the name of genocide
One that legalized cruelty to trans people in the name of protecting women
One that broke the internet in name of the safety of children
One that waves the flag of little England and pickets the hotels of refugees
One that sends people to jail for a tweet or a Facebook post

What have you become
How dare you

It’s an authoritarian world
It would seem
We just have to live in it.

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