I’m not scared
of the last “dangerous” neighborhood featured on the nightly news
I don’t fear same sex couples, communists or homeless men
so-called terrorists
Nor “foreigners” on “our shores”
not afraid of the drug war
I’m afraid of how we keep defining and redefining human
to keep someone else out
worry about fear and fear-baiting and
how we encage our brains
fear the way we cast blame
And fear more of the same
from MULES FIGHT BACK
authored by KRISTIN RICHARDSON JOHNSON
https://pensup.com/mules-fight-back-40-activist-poems-and-stories/