What keeps me up at night

My deepest fear

isn’ t

spiders

the dark

being in enclosed spaces

or

flying

my deepest fear

is losing hope,

coming to a place

where I feel as if

there’ s nothing left

Hope:

is something we all cling to -

that feeling…

that belief,

that a better time

and a better place

is on the way

we fight for our rights

we march for our rights

we protest for our rights

and we do all this

with the hope that things would change

-

what would happen

if we all gave up hope

if we began to believe that

nothing would change

that no matter how many times

we go to the rooftops

and scream

Black lives matter!

We matter!

Hear our voice!

it continues to fall on empty hearts

so

we throw up our hands

in resignation

in frustration

and say:

who cares anymore

why keep going

that is the moment in which

we would have truly lost