GOD SAVE ME

From the depth a darkened Earth rises a scarlet murmur, the revivification of the Blue Bird

But we no more have access to real civilisation on Earth because when a perpetrator commits an act of atrocity on another, the dominant act asserts what a person is allowed to be within this shared reality. This goes beyond mere dehumanisation of the other. The perpetrator treats the victim’s ontological rank in the universe as something that they can legislate upon.

The Fable-Teller is here Her low voice calms me with its quiet grandeur. She gathers up my childhood dreams, those satin-syllabled ones, and sends them upward, to that far-off land, like grains of sand scattered to the wind.